Nayef Homsi allegedly sold three ancient statues stolen from the temples of India and Nepal

Prosecutor's office of the new York Manhattan district wants to arrest an art dealer with an Upper East side Nayef Homsi (Nayef Homsi) on charges of selling stolen artifacts from India and Nepal in the amount of 500 thousand dollars. Gallery Homsi, specializing in "the ancient art of Asia", in the period from June 2012 to March 2013 sold three ancient statues of Hindu and Buddhist deities, despite the information on their illegal proishozhdenie@

In June 2012 to Nayef Homsi got on the implementation of the deliverer from an unknown sculpture of the Buddhist deity Samvara of gilded bronze, Dating from the XIII century. Hired Homsi expert informed the dealer that the sculpture is "almost certainly" is a statue stolen in Kathmandu in 1983. Homsi in the letter another dealer said that this thing is "dark spot theft". Despite this, Homsi did not look for the sculpture the Art Loss Register database, and, presumably, sold it in February 2013, the client from Beijing over 370 thousand dollars. Also Homsi is accused of selling the statue of a Hindu deity Narasimha XI century, originating from the region of Bihar in northeastern India. The Nayef Homsi claims that all extremely surprised by these charges and denied that he had stolen artefacta@

But it's not the only story associated with stolen Indian treasures. Art Museum, Honolulu (Hawaii) found in his collection of seven works of art, which, presumably, passed through the hands of another criminal art dealer from Manhattan, Subhash Kapoor (Subhash Kapoor). Recall that Kapoor was arrested in 2011 and extradited to India, and in rented warehouses in new York, I found lots of stolen Asian works (worth up to $ 100 million) illegally imported in the United States. Many of the items that have passed through the gallery Kapoor, settled in Museum and private collections. And one of these museums was the Museum in Honolulu. Now, however, these seven Indian works of art, among which there are figures, architectural fragments stolen from the temples of India, especially from the ancient city of Chandraketugarh will be returned in India@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Источники: artnet.com, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru