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Death sentence for Chinese curator
Art in America, Oct, 2004
An antiquities curator in charge of the Eight Outer Temples complex in China's World Heritage-protected Chengde Mountain Resort was recently accused of theft and sentenced to death by a Chinese court.
Li Haitao, former head of the Cultural Relics Protection Department at the site, located 90 miles northeast of Beijing, was convicted by the People's Court of Chengde City of stealing 259 relics from the Qing Dynasty temples and replacing them with fakes. The scare took place between 1992 and 2002. It is believed that he sold many of the originals on the black market, pocketing more than $450,000. Police also seized some 100 works in Li's private collection that were believed to have been stolen. Four of his assistants also charged in the case were fined and given jail terms of up to five years.
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