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<p>[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 8091153, member: 75482"]The NYC district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr, is a 'cultural property' crusader. He raided the 2012 NYINC which resulted in the arrest of Dr. Arnold Peter Weiss (Nomos, AG). More recently, he busted Sadigh who - curiously - was known but ignored for decades. Vance is set to retire in the next few weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of this, including the much-discussed 'memoranda of understanding', stems from the <a href="https://en.unesco.org/fighttrafficking/1970" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.unesco.org/fighttrafficking/1970" rel="nofollow">1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Convention has been adopted by nearly every country around the world and implementation is still only in the beginning stages. Every collector should familiarize himself/ herself with the details.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 8091153, member: 75482"]The NYC district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr, is a 'cultural property' crusader. He raided the 2012 NYINC which resulted in the arrest of Dr. Arnold Peter Weiss (Nomos, AG). More recently, he busted Sadigh who - curiously - was known but ignored for decades. Vance is set to retire in the next few weeks. All of this, including the much-discussed 'memoranda of understanding', stems from the [URL='https://en.unesco.org/fighttrafficking/1970']1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property[/URL] The Convention has been adopted by nearly every country around the world and implementation is still only in the beginning stages. Every collector should familiarize himself/ herself with the details.[/QUOTE]
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