An ArchitecturalDigest spread about two art collectors was photoshopped to obscure potentially looted Cambodian statues in their home:
That story sparked the attention of Cambodian investigators, who suspected that many of the Khmer treasures Lindemann owned were looted.
“Some of these statues are of enormous historical and cultural importance to Cambodia and should be repatriated as soon as possible,” Phoeurng Sackona, the country’s minister of culture and fine arts, told ICIJ.story, believed to have been stolen from a road to Angkor Thom in Siem Reap.Latchford confirmed as much in an email to a colleague with a photo of the works, saying: “these were all stolen.
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