A crackdown on stolen art last autumn — spanning multiple continents — netted around 19,000 artifacts and more than 100 arrests, authorities revealed on Thursday.
The two multinational operations involved officers from Interpol, Europol, the World Customs Organization and many national police forces going after criminal networks that had stolen from museums, archaeological sites and war-torn countries.
The Spanish National Police recovered a unique pre-Columbian Tumaco gold mask (Interpol)
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