80 arrests and more than 37,700 cultural goods seized in major art trafficking bust
The ninth edition of Operation Pandora, an international operation targeting the trafficking of cultural goods, has led to 80 arrests
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Cultural Heritage Trafficking
Precious archaeological vases and coins returned to Italian museum with support of Eurojust
Eurojust has supported Italian authorities with the return of over 2 500 precious ancient coins, vases and small sculptures that
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85 arrests and over 6 400 objects recovered during annual operation against international art trafficking
The eighth edition of an operation against international art trafficking, codenamed ‘Pandora’, saw the involvement of customs and law enforcement
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US CBP Returns Historical Indigenous Artifacts to Costa Rica
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) returned three historic artifacts on Thursday from the Caribbean Archaeological Subregion that were seized
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The Spanish Civil Guard recovers 119 extraordinarily valuable archaeological pieces
The Civil Guard of Seville, has concluded the Plotina operation, with the arrest of 2 people who are charged with
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Fourteen stolen cultural artefacts return to Italy with Eurojust support
The ancient artefacts, of considerable economic and cultural value, had been stolen from museums in Italy or illegally excavated and
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RITHMS HE Project: Research, Intelligence and Technology for Heritage and Market Security
The illicit trafficking of cultural goods is not a new form of crime; however, in the last few decades, this
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International art trafficking operation leads to 60 arrests and over 11,000 objects recovered
Law enforcement has arrested 60 people and recovered 11,049 stolen artefacts as part of a major international art trafficking crackdown
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Artworks seized and returned to Mexican Embassy
The Australian Border Force (ABF) has intercepted the entry of two protected cultural objects from Mexico: a pre-Hispanic Mixtec copper
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Intervened 350 archaeological pieces and almost 200 skeletal remains in Alicante
The Spanish Civil Guard, in the so-called Osarium operation, has investigated two men as alleged perpetrators of a crime of
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