Ajman feel their stunning 2-1 victory over Al Shaab in last week's Etisalat Pro League will give them the edge over an under-powered Al Ain in Saturday's Etisalat Cup tie at Khalifa bin Zayed Stadium. Iranian pros Javad Kazemian and Ali Samra fired first half goals to give the promoted club their first win in three matches and that result will have surely bolstered their confidence. Al Ain will be without several key players because of national duty and their Chilean striker Jorge Valdivia, who will be playing for his country in a World Cup qualifying match with Ecuador on Sunday.
The Ain coach Winfried Schaefer (right) expects his team to come out on top despite the absence of local players Saif Mohammed, Abdulla Malallah, Faris Jumaa, Mohammed Fayez and Ahmed Madhad, and Valdivia. "The absence of half the line-up has certainly created a huge void," said the German. "But at some stage or the other we must be prepared for such situations. And fortunately we have a strong bench."
Ajman will obviously rely on their Iranian forwards Kazemian and Samra to lead the attack in Group C that also includes Al Nasr and Al Ahli.
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The smuggler
Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
For sale
A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
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