US returns ancient artefacts looted from Cambodia, Indonesia | Arts and Culture News
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 27, 2024
New York district attorney accuses two prominent art dealers of the illegal trafficking of antiquities worth $3m.
Prosecutors in New York City have announced that they returned to Cambodia and Indonesia 30 antiquities that were looted, sold or illegally transferred by networks of American antiquities dealers and traffickers.
The antiquities were valued at a total of $3m, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement on Friday.
Bragg said he had returned 27 pieces to Phnom Penh and three to Jakarta in two recent repatriation ceremonies . . .
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