Tuesday, 15. May 2007
Topic: logisch - on May 15, 2007 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Inside one of the biggest antiquities-smuggling rings in history
Early one morning in June, 2003, two dozen police officers drew their guns and prepared to raid a stately three-story brick-and-concrete home on a corner lot in Everest Colony, a quiet residential neighborhood on the outskirts of the Indian city of Jaipur. Several khaki-clad officers scaled the imposing stone wall surrounding the house, disarmed a guard, and opened the gate. Under the gaze of a security camera, the rest of the team filed silently onto the property. The raid was the culmination of a yearlong investigation and months of surveillance, during which officers had posed as vagrants and fruit peddlers. They had timed the strike for dawn, hoping to startle the inhabitants.
newyorker.com Yarn of the priceless pearl carpet that has vanished The seven-strand pearl necklace remained part of the Baroda Royal Treasury. Jewels and Relics from Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Toshakhana South Asian Highlights
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