Former director of the Louvre Museum in France complicit in antiquities smuggling

According to the visual correspondent of Fars News Agency, quoted by EuronewsJean-Luc Martinez, former director and director of the Louvre Museum in France, is on trial on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud by an organized gang.

The charges were brought against the former director of the Louvre Museum as part of an investigation into the smuggling of stolen antiques from the Far East and the Middle East. Jean-Luc Martinez, who headed the world’s largest museum for eight years, was temporarily detained in France on Monday.

“Jean-Luc Martینnez strongly denies the allegations in this case,” his lawyers said in response to their client’s prosecution.

Jean-Luc Martinez reports that Jean-Luc Martinez is suspected of ignoring the forged authenticity of five Egyptian antiques, which the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi bought for tens of millions of euros.

However, the defense attorneys for the former Louvre’s director have insisted that their client has no doubt that the court will confirm his honesty.

From 2013 to 2021, Jean-Luc Martinez was in charge of the Louvre Museum in Paris. According to a judicial source, two Egyptian art experts were also temporarily detained on Monday, but were eventually released without being prosecuted.

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