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Monday, 21 December 2015 12:16

A California Antiquities Dealer Has Been Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Smuggling Artifacts

Major institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, received works from the Markells. Major institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, received works from the Markells. Wikipedia

The former antiquities dealer Jonathan Markell has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and a year of supervised release for making false declarations in customs documents to smuggle looted archeological artifacts from Southeast Asia into the US.

Markell and his wife Cari ran the now closed Silk Roads Gallery in LA for a decade.

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