Met officers catch the three men trying to sell the Ming Dynasty vase in an undercover operation.
Three men have been convicted in London in connection with the theft of a £2m vase from a Swiss museum.
The Met, in co-operation with Swiss law enforcement, carried out an undercover operation targeting those trying to sell the item.At Southwark Crown Court on Friday, Mbaki Nkhwa, 47, of The Heights, Charlton, and Kaine Wright, 26, of Heavitree Road, Woolwich, were each found guilty of one count of conspiracy to convert criminal property.
Det Ch Insp Matt Webb, from the Met's Specialist Crime Command, said: "These convictions are the result of four years' work crossing international boundaries and involving collaboration between many internal and external partners. He added that the vase - actually a bottle of the Yongle period - had "an interesting tale over its hundreds of years and this is another chapter".
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