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A $100 million (£68m) trove of Hindu and Buddhist treasures has been recovered during raids on a series of storage lock-ups across New York in the largest antiquities seizure in American history.

The 2,622 artifacts are alleged to have been plundered from ancient sites in South Asia and smuggled into the US for sale to museums and collectors by a Madison Avenue art dealer accused of operating an international smuggling racket.

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The Denver district attorney's office has charged four people in the theft of Dale Chihuly artwork from a Denver Botanic Gardens display last summer.

Alex Brook, 23, and Joseph Parnell, 36, have been charged with theft, tampering with evidence and felony criminal mischief. Sean Sorenson, 20, and Auvia Bellamy, 19, were charged with theft.

The four are accused of unlawfully entering the gardens Aug. 22 and stealing several pieces of Chihuly artwork.

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