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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) returned a statue from 630BC, that is believed to represent the Goddess Persephone, to the Libyan embassy in London in May 2021. HMRC reported this was looted from the UNESCO World Heritage site in Libya and was shipped into the UK in 2011 using false documents that described the artifact as a ‘stone decoration from Turkey’. This investigation was led by a specialist team within HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service that worked closely with the British Museum.
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