As part of an ongoing and increasingly knotty investigation into an international trafficking ring, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has confiscated five valuable Egyptian artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
An Egyptian sarcophagus painting from 945-712 BCE that police seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Courtesy of the New York District Attorney's Office.
, which first reported the news. The warrant, a copy of which has been reviewed by Artnet News, contended that the objects constituted evidence of “criminal possession of stolen property.”Four of the antiques have been connected to Roben Dib, a German-Lebanese art dealer who, along with Paris-based dealer Christophe Kunicki, is accused of falsifying documents to traffic hundreds of artifacts from the Near and Middle East.
The scandal reached new levels of notoriety last week when Jean-Luc Martinez, the former director of the Musée du Louvre, wasin connection with numerous antiques bought by the Louvre Abu Dhabi after allegedly being smuggled from Egypt. He, too, has denied the accusations.
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