Seized in the operation: value of 70 million TL
According to the police statement, an operation was carried out in London in 2021 for a porcelain vase belonging to the Ming dynasty in China, which is one of three artifacts stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva in 2019.
Work on the whereabouts of the vase began in 2020 when an auction house received an email requesting to set a price. Realizing that the vase was the stolen item, the auction house contacted the London police.
CAUGHT WHILE WANTING TO SELL FOR £450,000
British police, who determined the address to which the email was sent, approached David Lamming, who lives here, as a buyer and made an offer on the vase.
Nkhwa and Kaine Wright, who took it to the hotel in their car, were stopped by plainclothes policemen, who met to sell it at a London hotel, and received the vase from Mbaki Nkhwa in exchange for 450,000 pounds (about 15 million lire).
Lamming, who was later detained, was also claimed to be in constant contact with both Nkhwa and Wright.
Emphasizing that the vase was delivered to Switzerland in 2021, the statement said the three arrested were sentenced to prison for selling stolen historical artifacts at the Southwark court hearing in London yesterday.
VALUE 70 MILLION TL
The statement also noted that the actual value of the vase in question was 2 million pounds (about 70 million lira).
The police also emphasized that the operation and the trial process have been carried out in conjunction with Swiss institutions for 4 years.
PRIZE OF £10K WILL BE AWARDED
The police stated that one of the 3 works lost from the museum in Geneva in 2019 sold for 80,000 pounds (approximately 3 million lira) at an auction in Hong Kong in 2019, but was later returned to the museum and asked for support from citizens. for the third bowl, which has yet to be found. .
The London Metropolitan Police Service also announced that whistleblowers who helped find the bowl would be rewarded with a 10,000 pound bounty (approximately 345 thousand lire).
The total value of the three works stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva in 2019 was announced to be 3.5 million pounds (about 120 million lira). (AA)
Source: Sozcu
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