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Looted Antiquities Seized by DA Belonged to Met Trustee

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie December 2, 2022December 2, 2022

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office recovered 23 looted objects from Shelby White’s home over the last year and a half.

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Manhattan DA’s Office Is After Its Own Antiquities Trafficking Informant

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie August 9, 2022August 9, 2022

Lebanese art dealer Georges Lotfi, who once helped authorities seize looted antiquities, is now accused of doing his own share of trafficking too.

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Louvre Advisors Detained in Art Trafficking Investigation

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie July 26, 2022July 27, 2022

The news comes after former Louvre President Jean-Luc Martinez was charged in May with concealing the origins of illegally smuggled Egyptian antiquities.

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NY District Attorney’s Office Seizes Allegedly Looted Antiquities From the Met

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie June 1, 2022June 1, 2022

The five ancient Egyptian works, worth over $3M, may be tied to an international trafficking ring.

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23 Arrested and 10,000 Artifacts Seized in Crackdown on Archaeological Trafficking Ring

by Hakim Bishara November 21, 2019November 25, 2019

A sophisticated organized crime group used bulldozers and advanced metal detectors to excavate ancient artifacts in southern Italy, and deployed facilitators across Europe to traffic them.

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18,000 Illegally Trafficked Cultural Goods Seized in an International Crackdown

by Hakim Bishara August 9, 2019

Operation Pandora III, carried out by the Spanish Civil Guard, Europol, Interpol, and the World Customs Organization, included a special focus on illicit online trafficking. 59 individuals were arrested in the operation.

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How Social Media is Allowing for Illegal Antiquities Trafficking

Avatar photo by Michael Press July 11, 2019July 12, 2019

The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project has published a critical report on West Asian antiquities trafficking taking place more or less out in the open on Facebook.

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UN Security Council Takes Aim at ISIS Antiquities Trafficking

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 17, 2015

Last week the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution to curb the trade of looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria. UN Security Council Resolution 2199 prohibits the trade of artifacts illegally removed from Syria since 2011 and Iraq since 1990.

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German Media May Corroborate $36M Islamic State Antiquities Trafficking

by Sam Hardy November 28, 2014December 16, 2014

There is significant evidence that illicit antiquities trading contributes to paramilitary funding. It does not happen everywhere, all the time, but it does happen.

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