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The United States has returned more than 1,400 looted artifacts worth $10 million to India as part of an ongoing initiative to repatriate stolen art from countries across South and Southeast Asia, the Manhattan District Attorneys office announced Wednesday.. ..
The repatriations resulted from several ongoing investigations into looting networks, including those operated by convicted art traffickers Nancy Wiener and Subhash Kapoor, an American antiquities dealer who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for running a multimillion-dollar looting network through his New York gallery, the Manhattan District Attorneys Office said in press release.. . Kapoor was sent to face charges in Indias Tamil Nadu state following his arrest in Germany in 2011..
The DAs office obtained an arrest warrant for him in 2012though he remains in custody in India, pending his extradition to the US.. . . Todays repatriation marks another victory in what has been a multiyear international investigation into antiquities trafficked by one of historys most prolific offenders, William Walker, the federal Homeland Security Investigations New York special agent in charge, said in a press statement.. ..
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