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At slightest 1,440 antiquities collectively valued astatine USD 10 cardinal volition beryllium returned to India, a connection has said.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., successful a connection connected Wednesday, said the pieces recovered nether respective ongoing investigations into transgression trafficking networks, including those of alleged antiquities trafficker Subhash Kapoor and convicted trafficker Nancy Wiener, were returned astatine a ceremonial with Manish Kulhary from the Consulate General of India present and Alexandra deArmas, Group Supervisor from the Homeland Security Investigation of New York Cultural Property, Art, and Antiquities Group.
Bragg announced the instrumentality of 1,440 antiquities collectively valued astatine USD 10 cardinal to the radical of India, according to the statement.
“We volition proceed to analyse the galore trafficking networks that person targeted Indian taste heritage,” Bragg said.
The returned pieces included a sandstone sculpture depicting a Celestial Dancer looted from a temple successful Madhya Pradesh, the Tanesar Mother Goddess carved from green-grey schist and looted from the colony of Tanesara-Mahadeva successful Rajasthan.
The connection said that during Bragg’s tenure, the District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit recovered conscionable implicit 2,100 antiquities stolen from much than 30 countries and valued astatine astir USD 230 million.
It said astir 1,000 antiquities, including much than 600 antiquities looted from India and recovered earlier this year, were scheduled to beryllium repatriated successful the coming months.
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