The United States will return as many as 107 ancient artifacts toItaly : this was announced in these hours by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. The total value of the artifacts amounts to 1.2 million euros: these objects were recovered as a result of several ongoing criminal investigations and had previously been trafficked by several well-known antiquities smugglers, including Giacomo Medici, Giovanni Franco Becchina and Robert Hecht.

Another alleged smuggler, Edoardo Almagià, has been charged by the Bureau and is the subject of an arrest warrant. The pieces were often passed to well-known art dealers, including Robin Symes, a London-based dealer who was convicted in the United Kingdom, and Herbert Cahn, a Swiss art dealer who received a suspended sentence in Italy for receiving stolen goods.