International Crackdown Leads to the Confiscation of 19,000 Artifacts and 101 Arrests

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Saturday, May 16, 2020
Author: 
Alexandra Haris
Volume: 
36
Issue: 
5
Abstract: 

On May 6, 2020, INTERPOL announced that more than 19,000 artifacts and other artworks (including a Colombian gold mask, a carved Romanian lion, and thousands of ancient coins) had been recovered during two operations.[1] These operations, Athena II and Pandora IV, included INTERPOL, Europol, and the World Customs Organization (WCO) and spanned 103 countries to focus on the dismantlement of international criminal networks of art and antiquities traffickers.