US returns dozens of stolen artifacts to Peru
US returns dozens of stolen artifacts to Peru
8:05 AM Thursday Oct 23, 2014
DENVER (AP) Dozens of artifacts are on their way back to Peru after being seized in the United States during investigations into the smuggling of cultural relics.
U.S. Homeland Security investigators held ceremonies in Denver, San Antonio and Boston on Wednesday to repatriate over 40 items, including 20 Incan artifacts allegedly taken from graves in Peru. Investigators say a middleman purchased those items from local farmers and then shipped them to a smuggler in New England.
A Utah man forfeited two other objects a pre-Columbian statue and a funerary vessel after Israeli authorities arrested him on smuggling charges. Those two items and a vessel from northern Peru were returned to the Peruvian consul general during the Denver ceremony.
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