{"id":16792,"date":"2023-06-05T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=16792"},"modified":"2023-06-05T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T12:07:11","slug":"italy-recovers-750-stolen-antiques-from-british-dealers-hoard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/italy-recovers-750-stolen-antiques-from-british-dealers-hoard\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy recovers 750 stolen antiques from British dealer&#8217;s hoard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy recovers 750 stolen antiques from British dealer&#8217;s hoard. The Carabinieri art police announced Wednesday that notorious British antiquities dealer Robin Symes was forced to hand up almost 750 looted archaeological masterpieces following a long battle for their restitution.<\/p>\n<p>The relics will be on exhibit in Rome&#8217;s Castel Sant&#8217;Angelo museum as part of a collection of stolen works of art that have returned home, with an estimated value of more than \u20ac12 million ($12.9 million), CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Culture said in a statement: &#8220;The objects offer a cross-section of the many productions of ancient Italy and the islands, including numerous and diversified archaeological contexts (funerary, cultural, residential, and public) concentrated in particular in Etruria and Magna Graecia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recovered items include a bronze tripod table, parade headgear, funerary paintings, male busts, statues, bronzes, gems, weapons, and several more valuable items.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/pakistanis-among-30-migrants-dead-after-shipwreck-in-italy.html\">Pakistanis among 30 migrants dead after shipwreck in Italy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the artefacts were illegally acquired by Symes Ltd, a company run by Symes, a significant trafficker in cultural property, and come from &#8220;clandestine excavations on Italian territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company, which had always opposed the repeated recovery attempts by the Italian Judicial Authority and was subject to bankruptcy proceedings in the United Kingdom,&#8221; said Italian Attorney General Lorenzo d\u2019Ascia while addressing a press conference,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was also sued in Italy, through the Attorney General of the State, for the return of the goods or civil compensation for damages,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Symes lost his reputation as a seller of priceless artefacts when a Swiss warehouse was seized in 2016. He further denied trafficking in illegal art, but was often investigated but never charged due to old statutes of limitations, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, an additional 71 objects, currently in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>, are expected to be seized in the next few days, Brigadier General Vincenzo Molinese, commander of the Carabinieri Art Squad, said.<\/p>\n<p>The return of these 750 objects marks another success in Italy\u2019s attempt to recover its stolen treasures.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano said at the press conference: \u201cThe recovery of illicitly stolen cultural heritage is one of the priorities of my program; protecting it also means preventing our heritage from being plundered by unscrupulous traffickers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy recovers 750 stolen antiques from British dealer&#8217;s hoard. The Carabinieri art police announced Wednesday that notorious British antiquities dealer Robin Symes was forced to hand up almost 750 looted archaeological masterpieces following a long battle for their restitution. The relics will be on exhibit in Rome&#8217;s Castel Sant&#8217;Angelo museum as part of a collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[855,636,182],"class_list":["post-16792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-uk","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}