The previous week's
news about the arrest and extradition of Subash Chandra Kapoor was followed
this past week by a story on ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
recovering Indian antiquities from a storage unit in New York. Kapoor had
amassed an estimated $20 million of illicitly exported artifacts with
individual pieces having multi-million dollar values. A report indicated that
in New York Interpol and US Customs had intercepted a pair of stolen Indian
sculptures that were in route to London. A separate story presented the
opposing view that the smuggling rings provide an opportunity for Indians
living abroad to acquire desired antiquities. HSI (Homeland Security
Investigations) and ICE also returned a cache of Nok sculptures, which had been
identified in New York in 2010, to Nigeria.
The report follows the previous week's story which itemized Benin
"blood antiquities" of questionable provenance that reside in U.S.
Museums.
For similar news, visit Cultural Security
News.
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