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The
arrested 101 art traffickers around the
. The art
were from Spain, Colombia, Latvia, Afghanistan and Turkey. Interpol said they spent a long
monitoring online marketplaces to find the art and the thieves. Interpol's secretary-general Jürgen Stock spoke to
about how big the operation was. He said: "The number of arrests and objects shows the scale and global reach of the illicit trade in cultural artefacts, where every
with a rich heritage is a potential
." Interpol added: "Organised crime has many
. The trafficking of cultural goods is one of them. It is not a glamorous
run by flamboyant gentlemen forgers, but by international
networks."
