The reporting team also traced Latchford-linked items to another three private collectors and galleries. The remaining 16 were sold by an art dealer that prosecutors identified as an associate of LatchfordвЂ™s that had sold looted art. Of these relics, 27 passed through LatchfordвЂ™s hands, according to provenance information provided by the museums themselves, either on their websites or in correspondence with the reporting team.

Image: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post A set of two rare Khmer bronze deities with ownership histories listing both Spink & Son and Douglas Latchford displayed at the Cleveland Museum of Art in May. authorities said worked with Latchford in the collections of 10 museums: the Asian Art Museum San Francisco, the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Walters Art Museum and the National Gallery of Australia. Using public sources - including museums websites, LatchfordвЂ™s books, and gallery catalogues - and helped by several experts in Southeast Asian art, the team identified 43 relics with ownership histories tied to Latchford or three of his associates who U.S. The team also linked the trust to antiquites published in art galleriesвЂ™ catalogues around the world. In LatchfordвЂ™s 2011 вЂњKhmer BronzesвЂќ book, the team found 80 relics that were captioned as owned by the Skanda Trust.

Prompted by the revelation, a cross-newsroom reporting team from the ICIJ, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Spotify embarked on a hunt for items with Latchford links that had passed through Latchford or had traveled through other means into the collections of museums and private individuals. The Pandora Papers files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveal two secret offshore trusts that Latchford used to hold money and art: the Skanda and the Siva trusts, based in the secrecy haven of Jersey. But hundreds more relics - maybe thousands - once owned by Latchford havenвЂ™t been found. The Cambodian government is now working to recover its stolen heritage, has secured the return of several Latchford pieces from prominent museums and has been promised many more from his private collection. The case came seven years after Latchford was publicly linked to antiquities trafficking and after some in the art world had come to see him as too risky to deal with. In 2019, the United States indicted Douglas Latchford, an Englishman who had long lived in Thailand, of trafficking antiquities looted from countless Cambodian sacred sites.

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