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For decades, Douglas Latchford cut a romantic figure: The genial Englishman was an explorer of jungle temples, a scholar and a connoisseur seduced by the exquisite details of ancient sculpture. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
Beginning in the 1970s, he amassed one of the world’s largest private collections of Khmer treasures, mostly Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, the remains of a civilization that flourished in Southeast Asia a thousand years ago. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
While Latchford professed reverence for Khmer achievements, he was also trafficking in and profiting from antiquities pillaged from that civilization’s sacred temples, according to U.S. prosecutors, part of a decades-long ransacking of Cambodian sites. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
When the U.S. indicted Latchford in 2019, it seemed at last that hundreds of stolen items he had traded might be identified and returned: Prosecutors demanded the forfeiture of “any and all property” derived from his illicit trade over four decades. wapo.st/3Fl89YQ "It is hard to quantify their loss to our temples and c
But then the 88-year-old Latchford died before trial, leaving unresolved a tantalizing question: What happened to all the money and looted treasures?
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The answer lies, at least in part, in previously undisclosed records describing secret offshore companies and trusts that Latchford and his family controlled. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
The records are part of the #PandoraPapers, a cache of more than 11.9 million documents obtained by @ICIJorg and shared with The Post and other media outlets around the globe. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

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