Louvre ex-director charged in art trafficking case


Former Louvre president Jean-Luc Martinez has been charged with complicity in fraud and ‘concealing the origin of criminally obtained works by false endorsement’. – EPA pic, May 26, 2022.

THE former president of the Louvre museum in Paris has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of Egyptian archaeological treasures that investigators suspect were spirited out of the country during the Arab Spring uprisings, a French judicial source said today.

Jean-Luc Martinez was charged yesterday after being taken in for questioning along with two French specialists in Egyptian art, who were not charged, another source close to the inquiry told AFP.


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