Europe 1 with AFP 10:25 a.m., May 26, 2022
Jean-Luc Martinez, former president and director of the Louvre Museum, was indicted in an investigation into trafficking in antiquities from the Near and Middle East for "laundering and complicity in organized fraud".
He was taken into custody Monday with two Egyptologists, before being released.
A former president and director of the Louvre Museum, Jean-Luc Martinez, was indicted on Wednesday in Paris for "laundering and complicity in fraud in an organized gang" and placed under judicial supervision in an investigation into trafficking in antiquities from the Near and Middle East, we learned Thursday from a judicial source.
Jean-Luc Martinez, who is now ambassador for international cooperation in the field of heritage, was placed in police custody on Monday with two eminent Egyptologists in the premises of the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Property ( OCBC).
The two specialists have been released without prosecution at this stage, the source said.
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