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Statues Returned by US After Death of
Latchford Is British Museum Next?
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 8 – The US on August 8
announced the repatriation and
return to Cambodia of 30
Cambodian antiquities seized
by the Southern District of
New York U.S. Attorney’s
Office, which held a ceremony
which Inner City Press
attended.
It wanted to ask
if the Panama Paper held to
track these antiquities, and
if the British Museum, for
example, is also repatriating
looted heritage.
The Office
noted all the pieces were sold
to U.S. collectors and
institutions by Douglas
Latchford, who was indicted by
our Office in 2019, for his
lengthy involvement in illegal
trafficking of looted
Cambodian
antiquities.
Among other items
of cultural and historical
significance displayed at the
ceremony, held in the Office's
second floor library which has
a movie poster of "Molly's
Game," was a 10th Century
Khmer sandstone statue, Skanda
on a Peacock.
Speaking at the
ceremony was Keo Chhea,
Cambodian Ambassador to the
United States, who introduce
his minister's video
presentation which said Hun
Sen has brought peace to the
country. Peace through
censorship? The ceremony had
no mention at all of the
United Nations much less its
dubious UNESCO. We'll have
more on this.
The (dropped)
criminal case was US v.
Latchford, 19-cr-748
(Torres)
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