Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
February 11, 2025

Facing Justice: Ashraf Omar Eldarir Pleads Guilty in High-Profile Smuggling Case

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In a significant case of cultural property smuggling, previously reported on ARCA's blog , Ashraf Omar Eldarir, a naturalised U.S. citiz...
January 30, 2025

Judge Rules Against Safani Gallery in Fight Over Stolen Marble Head of Alexander

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Image Credit: Safani Gallery TEFAF Maastricht advertisement On 12 November 2019 Safani Gallerym through their attorney David Schoen, fil...
December 17, 2023

Lost Time, Found Art: The Decade-Long Pursuit of Restitution for Antiquities Smuggled by Douglas Latchford at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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In 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art restituted two,10th-century, Koh Ker stone statues, known as the “Kneeling Attendants” to Cambodia.  ...
August 11, 2020

Dying to get away with it: How one defendant's death may thwart justice for the people of Cambodia, Thailand, and India

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Douglas Latchford's Facebook page photo on 9 November 2017, two years before he was indicted in the USA Wire fraud, smuggling, ...
July 7, 2020

Ashraf Omar Eldarir, A US Citizen, indicted for smuggling Egyptian antiquities

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (HSI) - Cultural Property, Arts and Antiquities (CPAA) unit within the U.S. Department o...
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July 1, 2020

Auction House Seizure: A Roman marble portrait head of the Emperor Septimius Severus, circa 200 CE seized at Christie's

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Image Left:  Christie's Catalogue where the stolen sculpture was identified. Image Right:  Showroom image of the stolen head of Emper...
April 11, 2020

Christie's admits to failing to register to collect New York and local sales tax despite legal obligation to do so

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The tax collectors, unsigned Oil on panel : 78,2 X 100 cm, 16th century In a  Deferred Prosecution Agreement , the auction powerhous...
March 13, 2020

Supreme Court Decision on the Legal Status of Famous Picasso Painting

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On March 2, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case disputing who should own the Pablo Picasso masterwork, “The Actor,” cr...
February 2, 2020

Supreme Court Asked to Consider Legal Status of Famous Picasso Painting

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A petition for writ of certiorari has been filed asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling dismissing a case against New York’s Me...