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An Art Dealer Who Allegedly Headed a Trafficking Ring That Sold Egyptian Antiquities to the Louvre and the Met Has Been Arrested

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An Art Dealer Who Allegedly Headed a Trafficking Ring That Sold Egyptian Antiquities to the Louvre and the Met Has Been Arrested (English)
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https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/an-art-dealer-who-allegedly-headed-a-trafficking-ring-that-sold-egyptian-antiquities-to-the-louvre-and-the-met-has-been-arrested-2388183
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looted art
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criminal investigation
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arrest
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Serop Simonian
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extradition
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remand
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Louvre Museum
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Jo Lawson-Tancred
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1 November 2023
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criminal investigation
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The investigation concerns allegedly trafficked antiquities that were sold to the Met in New York and the Louvre Abu Dhabi between 2014 and 2017. Multiple Paris-based dealers have been investigated, including Christophe Kunicki and Richard Semper, who both confessed to forging provenance documents. (English)
looted art
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Serop Simonian
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Christophe Kunicki
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Artnet News
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