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US Arts and Crafts Store sues Christie’s for Selling Stolen Artifact

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25 May 2020

US Arts and Crafts Store sues Christie’s for Selling Stolen Artifact

After having paid massive fines and having returned thousands of questionably acquired antiquities, Hobby Lobby, a US based arts and crafts chain which heavily funded the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, is now suing Christie’s for the US$1.6 million they had paid for a 3,500 years-old cuneiform tablet from Iraq that turned out to have been stolen.

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/us-arts-and-crafts-store-sues-christies-for-selling-stolen-artifact?