For four months, I’ve been investigating Australia's vast collection of South East Asian antiquities, and what I’ve found is alarming: a story of dodgy dealers, looted temples, and some of the world’s most exclusive collections, writes Mario Christodoulou.
"I have explored extensively with Peng Seng and Latchford how to get 'legitimate' papers for the large Koh Ker [sculpture] and for all subsequent shipments. The following is the best procedure I can think of at this time.
The galleries tell us they will consider the information but make no firm commitment to return objects."We have a small number [of galleries] who are being very cooperative and helpful in sharing with us the documents they have and we have others who are being very difficult and we have a large number who are just being silent at the moment."
Daniel tells me those items were so valuable that insurance companies wouldn't cover them, leading his father to transform the apartment into "a vault". "Guys I've never heard of, saying, 'I'm from the museum of this and that, and your father was always going to donate to us,'" he says.
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