Police arrest four in antiquities trafficking bust
'Ndrangheta boss Pantaleone Mancuso, 68, nabbed in probe

(ANSA) - Catanzaro, July 20 - Police on Monday arrested four suspected members of an antiquities trafficking ring, including alleged boss Pantaleone Mancuso, 68, of the eponymous 'Ndrangheta mafia clan.
The other three suspects were named as Riace bronzes expert Giuseppe Braghò, 68, Francesco Staropoli, 56, and Giuseppe Tavella, 54.
Police also searched the home of alleged international antiquities trafficker Luigi Fabiano, 47, a Swiss citizen of Italian origin who lives in Thun, where they seized various archeological artifacts and shipped them back to Calabria.
Judges issued restraining orders preventing Fabiano and two others from entering or staying in Vibo Valentia, where the alleged trafficking ring had its operational headquarters in a garage near the city's courthouse.
Investigators say the trafficking ring dug a 40-metre-long tunnel from the garage to the archeological site of the ancient city of Hipponion, where it has been looting objects for years and sending them to Switzerland for international sale online.
The artifacts included amphoras, pottery artifacts, column capitals and entire statues.

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