Saturday, May 18, 2013

L.A. Times - Asia: Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say

L.A. Times - Asia
Headlines from latimes.com
thumbnail Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say
May 19th 2013, 05:09

No museum officials or collectors involved in the Southern California probe have been indicted, and no seized objects have been returned to their countries.

When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black market in stolen antiquities.

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