Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
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...
March 12, 2021

Conference: "Violated national heritage: theft, trafficking and restitution"

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Event:   Violated national heritage: theft, trafficking and restitution Organizer:  The Society for the History of Collecting Registration F...
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October 19, 2020

5 looters have been arrested in Pella, Greece for conducting a clandestine excavation

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Image Credit:  Greek Ministry of Culture Five looters, aged 43 to 50, were arrested by law enforcement officers of the Department of Heritag...
June 10, 2020

A Greek Horse in the US Courts

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Image Credit: ARCA Screenshot taken 02 May 2018 A little more than two years ago, on 01 May 2018 ARCA was informed by Dr. Christos T...
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...
June 29, 2018

Seizure: An Etruscan Hare Aryballos circa 580-560 B.C.E.

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At the request of the Manhattan district attorney's office, the Hon. Ellen N. Biben, Administrative Judge of New York County Supreme...
November 15, 2017

Assets of Gianfranco Becchina seized in relation to mafia collusion

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DIA Seizing Gianfranco Becchina assets  Most people who follow the illicit trafficking of antiquities will already be familiar with the...
October 27, 2017

Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports issue statement regarding claim on two Frieze Masters funerary vases

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Image Credit:  Greek Ministry of Culture and Sport On October 26, 2017 the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports issued a press r...
August 27, 2015

The Demise of the Petrified Mermaid of Chalkidiki

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By Angelina Giovani, ARCA 2014 Alumna Don’t blame the mermaid. In some places of the world, art is always welcome. Greece used to be ...
January 26, 2015

Policeman, Antiquities Smuggler, Black Market Cigarette Bootlegger, Arms Trafficker, Terrorist: A Snapshot of the Many Faces of One, Greek, Organized Crime Cell

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Investigating organized crime links with art crimes components is complicated. Sometimes researchers are able to draw detailed maps of ...
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July 28, 2014

Police officer with Greece's antiquities protection department arrested in smuggling ring

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor In " Million-euro Marble Statue Seized in Greece ", Sotiria Nikolouli reported for the ...
November 22, 2013

Museum of the History of the Olympic Games: Seven men sentenced in Patras for theft

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The ARCAblog asked Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis, who accepted an award at ARCA's Conference last June, for Greek accounts of the convic...