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January 24, 2012
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
U.S. officials repatriated "Le Marche aux Poissons" (The Fish Market), a monotype by Camille Pissarro, to French Ambassador Francois Delattre.
November 3, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
A masterpiece work of art - 'Christ Carrying the Cross' - stolen as part of the widespread Nazi plunder of World War II, was seized this week by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The painting was seized through formal legal proceedings, to protect the art until its real ownership is finally confirmed.
October 12, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
A painting stolen more than 90 years ago is finally on its way home to France. U.S. officials repatriated "Une Fille de Pêcheur" (A Fisherman's Daughter) to French Ambassador François Delattre.
September 21, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
The paintings were stolen from Poland by the Nazis in 1944 and recovered following an ICE HSI investigation.
September 13, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
The z-angle pre-Columbian feasting bowl was created by Mayan Indians. It is nearly 1800 years old.
August 17, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
On Thursday, ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) returned, during a joint repatriation ceremony, a collection of 67 artifacts illegally imported into the United States from the Dominican Republic. The objects were discovered as part of several investigations by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and CBP.
August 1, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
"Egyptian archaeological sites, storerooms and other locations are under serious threats of pillage, theft and illicit trafficking. That's why U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) joined forces with the U.S. Embassy to Egypt to present a four-day workshop titled ""Countering Antiquities Trafficking at Egypt's Ports and Borders."""
July 14, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Three individuals are in the custody of ICE HSI for their involvement in an international smuggling ring that imported cultural artifacts into the United States.
July 14, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Antiquity dealers and collectors from Michigan, New York, Virginia and the UAE were charged today in connection with a scheme to smuggle illicit cultural property into the United States.
July 7, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) returned a collection of objects illegally imported into the United States from Iraq.
July 6, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
In a ceremony on Tuesday, the local Speed Art Museum transferred a three-panel wooden triptych to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), following last month's settlement agreement.
May 16, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Five decorative, hand-carved human skulls were turned over to Indonesian authorities Monday during a ceremony at the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in New York, following an investigation by ICE's HSI.
May 12, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Today, U.S. ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) returned a collection of cultural artifacts illegally imported into the United States from Peru. The artifacts were discovered as part of three separate investigations by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York and Denver.
April 26, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Today at ICE headquarters, ICE Director John Morton and CBP Assistant Commissioner Thomas S. Winkowski repatriated 99 pre-Columbian artifacts seized as a result of operations by ICE's HSI and CBP in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., to Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli.
April 5, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
It's 2007. An American gentleman is traveling in Buenos Aires, browsing the city's antique district for treasures. A Rolling Stones fan, he stumbles upon a unique piece of artwork depicting Mick Jagger, which he purchases for $2,000 to display in his Phoenix, Ariz., home.
March 11, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
7 Sui Dynasty Pottery Horses with Riders, A.D. 581-618, Among Artifacts Returned to China.
February 23, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
"Investigation results in repatriation of the ""Nereid Sweetmeat Stand"" to Dresden State Art Collections"
January 20, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations

In 1961, the painting was loaned to the Musée Malraux in Le Havre in Normandy, France, but was stolen from the museum in December 1973. In October 2010, the Degas painting appeared in the Sotheby's New York catalogue for a pending auction of Impressionist and modern art.

January 20, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
In a ceremony held at the French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2011, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned to the French government a rare painting by master impressionist Edgar Degas that had been stolen and lost to the world for nearly 40 years.
January 14, 2011
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the painting Leda ed il Cigno, by Italian Renaissance painter Lelio Orsi, was ordered forfeited to the government as property brought into the United States in violation of customs laws.
June 2, 2010
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Agents initiated an investigation after the pre-Columbian artifacts were seen on eBay.
May 26, 2010
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton returned dozens of Paleozoic Era fossils that were sent through the mail from China and seized after an ICE investigation.
May 12, 2010
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Dozens of ancient artifacts were seized in an investigation into an international smuggling ring that sold antiquities via the Internet. ICE returned many of the seized items to El Salvador in a special ceremony.
April 5, 2010
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations

A dozen 1,400-year-old skulls smuggled into the United States were returned to Peru after an ICE investigation.

March 24, 2010
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Bildnis in der Laube (Portrait in the Garden), a 1930 painting by Swiss artist Paul Klee, was reported stolen to the Art Loss Registry in 1989 and reported by an art gallery in Canada.
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