Cooke’s article mentions the discomfort felt by museums for their role in complicity to looting, and gives a nod to the recent publication Chasing Aphrodite by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, quoted as saying: “For the past 40 years, museum officials [in the US] have routinely violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the UNESCO treaty [designed to prevent looting], buying ancient art they knew had been illegally excavated and spirited out of source countries.”
For more from the newspaper about the True case and its aftershocks, read here.