New York City Manhattan District Attorney Sai Vance announced on the 15th that 200 stolen cultural relics were returned to Italy. The artifacts are estimated to be worth about $10 million.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office website shows that the artifacts include a 7th-century "Ulysses pottery pot" worth $200,000 and a clay clay statue of a 4th-century "maiden's head" worth $100,000.
Vance said 150 of the artifacts were recovered through a survey of antique dealer Eduardo Almaja. Most of the 150 artifacts are in the collection of the Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in Fodeme, New York.
Born in Italy, Almaggia moved to New York in the 1980s and left the United States in 2003. According to Vance, Almagyah was investigated in Italy on suspicion of illegally buying and selling stolen cultural relics and is still at large.
Since August last year, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office has returned 717 artifacts to 14 countries and territories, of which 27 have been returned to Cambodia, 104 to Pakistan, and 248 to India.
Vance announced earlier this month that U.S. billionaire Michael Steinhardt had returned 180 artifacts obtained through illegal channels for a total of $70 million to avoid prosecution.
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