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US Returns More Than 200 Stolen Artifacts to India After Federal Investigation
Source: ABC News
US Returns More Than 200 Stolen Artifacts to India After Federal Investigation
By GENEVA SANDS Jun 6, 2016, 5:41 PM ET
Nine years ago, federal investigators received a tip about a shipment of seven crates destined for the U.S. described as “marble garden table sets.”
Examination of the shipment revealed that it actually contained numerous antiquities, setting off “Operation Hidden Idol,” which resulted in the arrest of six people and the recovery of artifacts worth more than $100 million, according to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), an investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
On Monday, more than 200 of those artifacts were returned to the government of India in a joint ceremony with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Department of Homeland Security returned religious statues, bronzes and terracotta pieces which were looted from some of India’s “most treasured religious sites,” according to DHS. Some of the items date back 2,000 years.
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By GENEVA SANDS Jun 6, 2016, 5:41 PM ET
Nine years ago, federal investigators received a tip about a shipment of seven crates destined for the U.S. described as “marble garden table sets.”
Examination of the shipment revealed that it actually contained numerous antiquities, setting off “Operation Hidden Idol,” which resulted in the arrest of six people and the recovery of artifacts worth more than $100 million, according to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), an investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
On Monday, more than 200 of those artifacts were returned to the government of India in a joint ceremony with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Department of Homeland Security returned religious statues, bronzes and terracotta pieces which were looted from some of India’s “most treasured religious sites,” according to DHS. Some of the items date back 2,000 years.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/us-returns-200-stolen-artifacts-india-federal-investigation/story?id=39648637
[font size=1]The Jain Figure of Bahubali is seen here in this undated file photo.[/font]
