Showing posts with label Becchina archive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Becchina archive. Show all posts
September 12, 2022

Orpheus, the poet, and his two sirens are going home

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Back in August, ARCA wrote about a 11 August 2022 announcement made by the J. Paul Getty Museum where the museum publically stated its inten...
May 25, 2022

Justice Rendered: The final confiscation of properties and business enterprises of Gianfranco Becchina has been confirmed.

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DIA Seizing Gianfranco Becchina assets in 2017 Italy's Direzione Investigativa Antimafia,  the country's Anti-Mafia Investigation De...
July 2, 2019

Object Withdrawn - Bonhams Auction House - Apulian red-figure janiform kantharos

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Pending a closer look Bonhams Auction house has withdrawn the Apulian red-figure janiform kantharos attributed to the Iliupersis Group i...

Auction Alert - Bonhams Auction House - An il(licit) Apulian red-figure janiform kantharos?

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Screenshot of Bonham's website captured 01 July 2019 On July 01, 2019 ARCA was informed by Christos Tsirogiannis that he had identi...
October 24, 2018

Court of Palermo dismisses charges of mafia association against Gianfranco Becchina.

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Following a formal request by the Deputy Prosecutor for the District Anti-Mafia Directorate   Carlo Marzella,  preliminary reexaminatio...
September 11, 2018

Restitution: An Attic Marble Anthemion from a Grave Stele returned to Greece

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On June 9, 2017 forensic archaeologist Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis, wrote to ARCA and to the Art and Antiques Unit of London's Metropo...
May 2, 2018

Auction Alert - Sotheby’s New York - a bronze Greek figure of a horse

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On May 01, 2018 ARCA was contacted by Christos Tsirogiannis about a possible ancient object of concern in an upcoming Sotheby's auction...
April 11, 2018

Auction Alert - Christie's Auction House - an Etruscan 'Pontic' black-figured neck-amphora and a Roman bronze boar

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ARCA has been informed by Christos Tsirogiannis that he had identified two potentially tainted antiquities, scheduled to be auctioned by Ch...
November 17, 2017

A Sicilian Mafia Primer to Organized Crime Members with apparent ties to Gianfranco Becchina

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This is a list of mafia-tied individuals and cooperating mafia-tied individuals authorities have stated have associations with, or wh...