{"id":352196,"date":"2022-05-27T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=352196"},"modified":"2022-06-21T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T02:51:28","slug":"ex-louvre-director-faces-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/ex-louvre-director-faces-criminal-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Louvre director faces criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Europe always ready to pillage Africa&#8230; <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>The former director of the Louvre Museum in Paris, Jean-Luc Martinez, has been charged with money laundering and complicity in \u201corganized gang fraud,\u201d which apparently involved the trafficking of archaeological objects taken out of Egypt during the unrest in the early 2010s.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe that Martinez turned a blind eye to fake certificates of origin for five \u201ccriminally obtained\u201d pieces which ended up in the Louvre\u2019s Abu Dhabi branch, AFP reported, citing sources. The suspected fraud allegedly involved several art experts.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Art Newspaper, Martinez, who headed the Louvre between 2013 and 2021, was detained earlier this week, along with the head of the museum\u2019s Egyptian department, Vincent Rondot, and renowned Egyptologist Olivier Perdu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/556202-louvre-fraud-art-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10160428541949345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 Europe always ready to pillage Africa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":352199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}