via The Washington Post, 17 October 2021: Another result from the Pandora Papers revelations and the financial dealings of Douglas Latchford. The Denver Art Museum will now return four Latchford antiquities to Cambodia which is about time since the pieces were already linked to Latchford nine years ago.
The Denver Art Museum is preparing to return four antiquities to Cambodia following a news media collaboration that reported the pieces are linked to a man charged with trafficking looted artifacts.
The four antiquities to be returned came to the museum through Douglas Latchford, who in 2019 was indicted by U.S. prosecutors after decades of alleged trafficking in looted artifacts from the Khmer Empire, which flourished in Southeast Asia a thousand years ago.
The Washington Post, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other news organizations in the Pandora Papers collaboration began contacting museum officials about pieces in their collection linked to Latchford in June and followed up with a letter in September. The museum removed the four artifacts from its collection after receiving the letter from the news organizations seeking comment about the items.
See also:
- Denver Art Museum to return artifacts to Cambodia after Pandora Papers expose links to indicted art dealer | The Hill, 17 October 2021
- The Denver Art Museum Is Returning Four Antiquities to Cambodia After the Pandora Papers Exposed Their Illicit Origins | ArtNet News, 18 October 2021
- Four Cambodian antiquities to be returned after the Pandora Papers exposed their illicit origins | Khmer Times, 19 October 2021
