Thread: Cambodia welcomes the arrest of a prominent New York antiques dealer

Cambodian Ministry of Culture officials have welcomed the arrest in New York on Wednesday of Nancy Wiener, a prominent antiques dealer specializing in Southeast Asian art, for allegedly selling stolen artefacts from Cambodia, the Phnom Penh Post Online reported on Friday.

“This is very good news for us,” said Kong Vireak, director of Cambodia’s National Museum, adding that officials were coordinating with network in the US to find out more about her collection.

Weiner is a second-generation art dealer whose family sold antiquities to John D. Rockefeller III and Jacqueline Kennedy. She has been charged with obtaining millions of dollars’ worth of artefacts from international smugglers, including pieces from Cambodia, Thailand and India.

In March, police raid of Weiner’s gallery led to the discovery of a 10th century bronze Buddha statue worth $850,000 which was suspected to be smuggled from Cambodia or Thailand.

According to a complaint filed in the Manhattan Criminal Court, Wiener and her co-conspirators began trafficking stolen artefacts as early as 1999, and employed careful techniques to hide the origins of the artefacts and legitimize the sale.

Cambodia has been a fertile ground for criminal dealing in artefact smuggling. Key Angkorian pieces from Cambodia have been discovered in prestigious auction houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s and in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Cambodia welcomes the arrest of a prominent New York antiques dealer - Thai PBS English News

Just introduce Trump to this New York story an it will go viral.
"Trump buys stolen Cambodian antiques "

he probably did already,

The real question is which corrupt Cambo bastard sold them