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  • Source: Agencies
  • 7 Sep 2022 08:17
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Prosecutors in New York returned dozens of artifacts stolen from Italy, valued at roughly $19 million on Tuesday, including some discovered in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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  • New York returns $19 mn of stolen art to Italy.
    New York returns $19 mn of stolen art to Italy.

Prosecutors in New York returned dozens of artifacts stolen from Italy and valued at roughly $19 million on Tuesday, including some discovered in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"These 58 pieces represent thousands of years of rich history, yet traffickers throughout Italy utilized looters to steal these items and to line their own pockets," said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, noting that it was the third such repatriation in nine months. 

"For far too long, they have sat in museums, homes, and galleries that had no rightful claim to their ownership," he said at a ceremony attended by Italian diplomats and law enforcement officials.

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The stolen pieces were sold to Michael Steinhardt, one of the world's finest collectors of ancient art, according to the DA's office, who was also hit with a "first-of-its-kind lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities."

Among the recovered valuables, which were sold to "unwitting collectors and museums," officials said, were a marble head of the Greek goddess Athena from 200 B.C.E. and a drinking cup from 470 B.C.E.

The pieces were stolen at the behest of four men who "all led highly lucrative criminal enterprises – often in competition with one another – where they would use local looters to raid archaeological sites throughout Italy, many of which were insufficiently guarded," the DA's office said.

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One of them, Pasquale Camera, was "a regional crime boss who organized thefts from museums and churches as early as the 1960s. He then began purchasing stolen artifacts from local looters and sold them to antiquities dealers," it added.

It said that this year alone, the DA's office has "returned nearly 300 antiquities valued at over $66 million to 12 countries."

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