{"id":2005914,"date":"2023-08-19T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sting-operation-busts-international-crime-ring-uncovers-priceless-antique\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T20:46:18","slug":"sting-operation-busts-international-crime-ring-uncovers-priceless-antique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sting-operation-busts-international-crime-ring-uncovers-priceless-antique\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting operation busts global crime ring, reveals priceless antique."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsting-operation-busts-international-crime-ring-uncovers-priceless-antique%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2005914&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sting\u2063 Operation\u200b Busts International Crime Ring, Uncovers Priceless Antique<\/h2>\n<p>A sting operation\u200c conducted at a luxurious London hotel has resulted in the \u200crecovery of a \u200b15th-century Chinese vase worth a staggering 2 million pounds ($2.5 million).\u200d This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-accused-of-stealing-credit-for-rescue-of-4-americans-from-afghanistan\/\" title=\"State Department Accused Of Stealing Credit For Rescue Of 4 Americans From Afghanistan\">successful operation<\/a> also led to the dismantling of a criminal ring believed to be responsible for stealing the precious artifact from\u200c a Swiss museum, according\u2063 to British \u200bpolice.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen vase, which dates back \u2062to the Yongle period\u200c of the Ming Dynasty, \u2063was one of three items \u200dthat were taken from the Museum \u200bof Far Eastern Art in Geneva in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>After a London court found two men\u2062 guilty of charges related to the gang&#8217;s attempt to sell the vase, the\u2063 Metropolitan Police Service made the exciting announcement.\u2064 Another \u200bman had already pleaded guilty to similar\u200b charges \u200cearlier this year, while \u2063two additional individuals \u2064who were arrested in London are currently awaiting\u2062 trial in Switzerland for their alleged involvement in the burglary. All five individuals are from southeast London.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sting-operation-busts-international-crime-ring-uncovers-priceless-antique\/\" title=\"Sting operation busts global crime ring, reveals priceless antique.\">organized crime group involved<\/a> in\u2062 this offending believed they could commit \u200csignificant offenses internationally and that there\u200b would be no comeback,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>said Detective \u2064Chief \u200cInspector Matt Webb of \u200dthe Met&#8217;s Specialist \u200dCrime unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were \u2062mistaken, highlighting\u200b the strength of our relations with international law enforcement partners and our ability to work across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-u-s-can-beat-russia-in-ukraine-without-firing-a-shot\/\" title=\"The U.S. Can Beat Russia in Ukraine Without Firing a Shot\">international boundaries<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>London police collaborated with Swiss authorities during the\u200c investigation after \u200can auction house alerted them about an email\u2062 seeking a valuation for the\u2064 stolen vase. Undercover officers offered to purchase the vase for 450,000 pounds ($573,000) and arranged to meet the suspects \u2063at a central London hotel, where \u2063the\u200b first\u200c suspect was apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>In their\u200d ongoing efforts to recover the stolen items, the police\u200c have offered a \u2062reward \u200cof 10,000 pounds \u2062($12,734) for any\u200b information leading to the retrieval of a wine cup \u200dadorned with \u200bchicken decorations, which \u200dwas also stolen from the Geneva museum. Fortunately,\u2064 an 80,000-pound ($101,872) bowl that was taken\u2064 in the same heist was returned to \u200cthe museum after \u200bbeing sold at\u2064 an\u2063 auction in Hong Kong in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 illicit\u200b market for stolen Chinese antiquities has witnessed several high-profile heists in recent years,\u200b including\u200d thefts\u200c from British museums and auction houses \u200cin 2012, where jade bowls, figurines, and other valuable items worth millions were stolen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has \u200dreviewed this Associated\u200c Press story \u2062and may have altered \u2063it prior to \u200cpublication to ensure that it\u2062 meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sting-operation-busts-international-crime-ring-uncovers-priceless-antique\/\">Sting \u200bOperation Busts International Crime Ring, Uncovers Priceless Antique<\/a> \u200d appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The \u2062Western \u2062Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A London hotel sting operation led to the recovery of a 15th-century Chinese vase worth $2.5 million. British police announced that the artifact, stolen from a Swiss museum, was found, and the criminal ring responsible for the theft was dismantled. The vase belongs to the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2005915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}