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Metropolitan Museum of Art to return 15 smuggled sculptures to India
FirstpostNew York: The prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 15 sculptures to India after it was learned that the antiquities were illegally removed from the country and sold by disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor. The museum contacted Homeland Security about its works from Kapoor in 2015 and is pleased to be acting on this matter today as a result of the criminal investigation into Subhash Kapoor by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, it said. Through this cooperative partnership, the museum received new information from the Manhattan DA’s office about 15 works of art that made it clear that the works should be transferred, resulting in a constructive resolution, the statement said. In addition, in cooperation with the DA office’s criminal investigation into Turkish sites Bubon and Perge, the museum recently removed from display from its Greek and Roman galleries three pieces from Turkey– two of which were loans and a third is part of the Met’s collection, it said.
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