Still, drugs involve the greatest degree of smuggler creativity. During the filming, Becker said, agents discovered a set of vampire bats they traced to a purchaser on eBay, as well as over a million dollars in counterfeit money orders. (The results are negative, and the teen, with no money or luggage and only a T-shirt on his back on a frigid winter night, is released.)ĭrugs, of course, are only one form of contraband people try to transport into the U.S. In the first episode, “Courier to Kingpin,” a K-9 rips open a bag containing three bricks of crystal meth a nervous man from Guyana is caught trying to smuggle four kilos of pure cocaine inside his carry-on and a Dominican teenager gets his stomach X-rayed on the suspicion that he’s swallowed pellets filled with liquid heroin. Thereafter, Kapoor laundered the Arch Parikara to the Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation, who donated the piece to the Yale University Art Gallery in 2007, said the release.The premise makes for some riveting television. The piece was smuggled out of India and into New York in May 2002. These photographs, along with dozens of others depicting antiquities lying in the grass or on the ground, were sent to Kapoor by a supplier of illicit items in India. The Arch Parikara first surfaced in photographs depicting the antiquity in a dirty, pre-restoration condition.
Crafted from marble, it dates to the 12-13th century and is valued at approximately $85,000. One of the idols stolen by Kapoor that was returned to India was the Arch Parikara. The total value of the pieces recovered exceeds $143 million, said the official statement from the Manhattan district attorney's office. From 2011 to 2022, the DA's Office and HSI recovered more than 2,500 items trafficked by Kapoor and his network. Kapoor and his co-defendants smuggled looted antiquities into Manhattan and sold the pieces through his Madison Avenue-based gallery, Art of the Past. "The cooperation between India Pride Project, Mumbai-based professor of archaeology Dr Kirit Mankodi and HSI along with the Manhattan DA office is a classic example of how the law enforcement should work hand-in-hand to build prosecution cases to bring down the antiquities trafficking networks," said Vijay Kumar. India Pride Project is a global organisation dedicated to restoring India's lost heritage. Among the organisations that helped HSI in its investigation and verify the provenance of the antique idols was India Pride Project, said its co-founder Vijay Kumar. "Tracking down these antiquities would not be possible without the collaboration of our law enforcement partners at HSI and the outstanding work of our world-class investigators," he added. District attorney Alvin L Bragg Jr said, "We are proud to return hundreds of stunning pieces back to the people of India." "These antiquities were stolen by multiple complex and sophisticated trafficking rings - the leaders of which showed no regard for the cultural or historical significance of these objects," he said. All the 307 antiquities were returned during a repatriation ceremony at the Indian Consulate in New York attended by India's consul general Randir Jaiswal and US homeland security investigations acting deputy special agent-in-charge Tom Lau, said the release. The remaining 66 antiquities had been stolen from India by smaller trafficking networks. Five of the antiquities were seized following investigation into the collections of Nancy Wiener, and one after investigation into Nayef Homsi.
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