American collector John Sisto (John Sisto) kept at his house in the town Beruin, Illinois, the real treasure. In his collection there were about 3,5 thousands of ancient artifacts, relics, rare manuscripts and other items of historical value.

After the death of systems in March 2007, investigating the origin of these pieces have taken specialists from the FBI. For two years they found that 1 600 sites, estimated at 5-10 million dollars, were stolen from Italy and transported to the United States for resale. As the representative of the FBI Ross Rice (Ross Rice), soon they will be returned to their homeland.

origin of the remaining 2 thousand artifacts were unable to check, so they will be transferred to the rest of the family collection. According to Rice, John Sisto activities contrary to the laws of Italy concerning the cultural heritage of this country, but in the U.S. criminal case in this regard will not be instituted.

works for his collection of John Sisto received from his father Giuseppe, who traveled to Europe. He bought up various objects and send their son to further sales. But John was not able to part with them and kept them at home. «Frankly speaking, he fell in love with them. He thought it perfectly. He thought that this story », - told the collector and the son of Joseph Sisto (Joseph Sisto).

In the mid 2000-ies, Joseph learned that many of his father's collection of artifacts is likely to have dubious origins, and invited to return to their owners. However, John Sisto has refused to do so. Because of this, Joseph quarreled with his father and almost ceased to communicate with him until the last years of his life.

After the death of his father, Joseph appealed to the police. The Chief of Police Beruina William Kashner (William Kushner) remembers how they enter the house systems in 2007, he saw hundreds of boxes with labels in the Italian language. On the second floor and attic walls cover a lot of valuable paintings, hidden for storing large sheets of cardboard boxes. Kashner admitted that for 33 years working in law enforcement saw this the first time. He immediately realized that we must call the FBI unit to fight crimes in the sphere of art, and ordered his men not to touch anything.

The oldest artifacts and documents from the collection date from Sisto IV century BC. Collector shall keep and parchment manuscripts of the Roman fathers of Paul III and Paul V, letters to King Charles V and Ferdinand II, as well as handwritten preface Benito Mussolini (Benito Mussolini) to the book Margarita Sarfatti (Margheritta Sarfatti) Dux ( «leader»), published in 1926.

Joseph Sisto said glad to return artifacts to Italy - they fall into the hands of scientists and seen before the general public. «This is what should be done. They concluded ÎÅÒÁÚÇÁÄÁÎÎÁÑ history, which should not be in the hands of only one person », - he said.

Material prepared Onuchin Catherine, AI

Source: chicagobreakingnews.com , AP , artinvestment.ru

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