Monthly Archives: March 2025

A Timeline of Art and Artifacts Repatriated in 2025

February 18: The Manhattan District Attorney’s office repatriated 107 antiquities to Italy, valued around $1.2 million, recovered from antiquities smugglers Giacomo Medici, Giovanni Franco Becchina, and Robert Hecht. “Italy has unfortunately suffered significant and extensive looting over the past 60 years, and we will continue to do everything possible track down and return pieces that pass through Manhattan,” D.A. Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. said in a statement.