Why a new EU antiquities law aimed at stopping antiquities trafficking may hamper museum loans
A sweeping EU law designed to prevent the trafficking of looted antiquities that takes effect on 28 June may have ...
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Alleged head of Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring leaves France amid ‘breakdown’ in criminal investigation – The Art Newspaper
Serop Simonian, the alleged head of an Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring that duped the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the ...
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Three Men Face Sex Trafficking Charges
Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with operating an illegal brothel and sex trafficking in Las Vegas, ...
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US Treasury Sanctions Cambodian Tycoon Over Crypto Fraud and Trafficking Links
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on Cambodian tycoon Ly Yong Phat and his businesses, linking them ...
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Antiquities trafficking isn’t ‘the third largest illicit commerce on the earth’, researchers declare
The statistic has appeared, in various varieties, within the Related Press, European Fee studies and even Unesco paperwork: the illicit ...
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Douglas Latchford’s property arms over $12m to settle US trafficking case
The daughter of late antiquities supplier Douglas Latchford has agreed to pay $12m and hand over a seventh century Vietnamese ...
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In Burkina Faso and Mali, pilot scheme builds defences towards unlawful trafficking of cultural antiquities
Mali and Burkina Faso are two of the world’s least developed nations, in keeping with the United Nations. Every has ...
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Appeals courtroom upholds antiquities trafficking expenses in opposition to former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez and curator Jean-François Charnier
The antiquities trafficking expenses in opposition to the previous president of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, and curator Jean-François Charnier, have ...
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German museums newest to be implicated in far-reaching legal investigation into antiquities trafficking
A number of public museums and universities in Germany have develop into embroiled in legal investigations into the widespread trafficking ...
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Former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez questioned by police as a part of probe into alleged antiquities trafficking ring
The investigation into the alleged visitors of enormous portions of antiquities from the Center East took a dramatic flip in ...
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