Jean-Luc Martinez, now ambassador for international cooperation in the field of heritage, had been placed in police custody with two eminent Egyptologists.
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A former president and director of the Louvre Museum, Jean-Luc Martinez, was indicted on Wednesday May 25 in Paris for “laundering” and “organized gang fraud” and placed under judicial supervision in an investigation into antiquities trafficking. of the Near and Middle East, learned franceinfo Thursday from a judicial source.
Jean-Luc Martinez, patron of the Louvre from 2013 to summer 2021, is now an ambassador for international cooperation in the field of heritage. He had been 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).
According to chained duckwho announced the custody, investigators are trying to find out if Jean-Luc Martinez has “close your eyes” on false certificates of origin of five pieces of Egyptian antiquity, including a pink granite stele of Tutankhamun, acquired by Louvre Abu Dhabi “for several tens of millions of euros”.