Wednesday, June 29, 2022

"Probably the largest art theft in history"

How an art dealer looted Cambodia for decades — selling its treasured statues to the world's top museums
Douglas Latchford photographed at home in Mayfair, London for Apollo Magazine Nov 2008. Photographer: Derry Moore Photography

For more than 40 years, "Dynamite" Doug Latchford was the world's foremost dealer of Cambodian antiquities. An energetic salesman, he secured seven-figure prices for objects that ­previously had modest value and landed them in institutions including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Today his activities are at the center of one of the most complex art market investigations ever undertaken, and authorities across the globe are unraveling his epic plunder of Cambodia's archaeological treasures. 

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From today's story

"It's a massive crime, probably the largest art theft in history."
— Brad Gordon
Adviser to prosecutors

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