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Breaking: The US government is returning 10 looted antiquities to India today valued at more than $1 million.
They were seized in recent years from Nancy Weiner Gallery, the Maitreya Gallery and @ChristiesInc auction house after investigations by @ManhattanDA and @ICEgov
They were seized in recent years from Nancy Weiner Gallery, the Maitreya Gallery and @ChristiesInc auction house after investigations by @ManhattanDA and @ICEgov
@ChristiesInc @ManhattanDA @ICEgov Several of the objects were seized during the March 2016 raids at Asia Week, which we covered here:
chasingaphrodite.com/2016/03/17/bus…
and here: chasingaphrodite.com/2016/03/18/asi…
chasingaphrodite.com/2016/03/17/bus…
and here: chasingaphrodite.com/2016/03/18/asi…
@ChristiesInc @ManhattanDA @ICEgov First up: Marble Apsara ceiling panel depicting a celestial goddess figure (“Apsara Marble”), dated to approximately 10th Century C.E., measuring 44 inches tall, valued at $500,000, and seized from Nancy Weiner Gallery on December 21, 2016
📞🚂🚢✈️Vicente Zambada-Niebla✈️🚢🚂📞
‘El Vicentillo’
Sinaloa drug cartel’s
logistics guru,
coordinated trains, ships, submarines
+ even Boeing 747s
as they moved cocaine + heroin
from S America 2 Mex 4
“El Chapo.”
‘El Vicentillo’
Sinaloa drug cartel’s
logistics guru,
coordinated trains, ships, submarines
+ even Boeing 747s
as they moved cocaine + heroin
from S America 2 Mex 4
“El Chapo.”
Vicente Zambada-Niebla
supervised twin brothers
Pedro Flores + Margarito Flores,
who brought up 2 2,000 kilos
of cocaine/mo N2 Chicago
+ other major U.S. cities.
He lost track of # of times
he passed along an order
2 have someone killed.😱
Phantom Secure?
@RussellSieg
supervised twin brothers
Pedro Flores + Margarito Flores,
who brought up 2 2,000 kilos
of cocaine/mo N2 Chicago
+ other major U.S. cities.
He lost track of # of times
he passed along an order
2 have someone killed.😱
Phantom Secure?
@RussellSieg
🗣️Assistant U.S. Attorney Erika Csicsila🗣️
described 2 U.S. District Chief Judge
Ruben Castillo
cooperation they’d received
from Zambada-Niebla,
adding she expects it
“will continue on
after sentencing hearing today.”
chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/3…
described 2 U.S. District Chief Judge
Ruben Castillo
cooperation they’d received
from Zambada-Niebla,
adding she expects it
“will continue on
after sentencing hearing today.”
chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/3…
