CNN —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 Attorney’s office announced Wednesday.
The trafficked goods recovered include items that, until recently, were on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The DA’s office obtained an arrest warrant for him in 2012though he remains in custody in India, pending his extradition to the US.
Since its creation over a decade ago, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit –– a task force of lawyers, investigators and art experts –– has recovered 5,800 antiquities valued at almost $460 million.
In July, the US and India signed an agreement to protect cultural property by preventing illegal trades and streamlining the process of returning stolen antiquities back to India.
Persons:
Nancy Wiener, Subhash Kapoor, Alamy Kapoor, ” William Walker, – –
Organizations:
CNN, Manhattan District, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, Attorney’s, Metropolitan Museum of Art, federal Homeland Security
Locations:
United States, India, South, Southeast Asia, New, London, American, New York, Rajasthan, Tamil, Germany, 2012though, York