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Julia Latchford, 50, said she was not personally subject to any investigation, and had not been involved in the sale of antiquities while they were part of the Skanda and Shiva trust structure. The Skanda Trust was set up in 2011 and the Siva Trust in 2012 in Jersey, and Julia Latchford was among the beneficiaries. The papers have revealed new details of how he used offshore trusts to pass his assets, including his collection of Khmer artefacts, to his daughter and avoid them becoming liable to UK inheritance tax. The Pandora papers, a collection of millions of documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, have again focused world attention on Latchford. “These works are the subject of a significant live investigation which is nearing its conclusion,” a spokesperson for the gallery said. The 50cm-tall bronze Padmapani and two smaller attendants was described by the NGA’s director at the time, Ron Radford, as “perhaps the most extraordinary work acquired this year”.īut the NGA has since confirmed that it has links to Douglas Latchford, and that its provenance is incomplete, raising serious questions about whether it was looted before being sold via dealers into the art market. An announcement is expected within weeks. The NGA confirmed on Wednesday it was awaiting some final research about the exact origin of a Cham bronze trio bought by the gallery for $US1.5m in 2011. The National Gallery of Australia is also working towards the return of an important Cham sculpture after discovering its links to Latchford. The five sculptures returned last week could soon be joined by the rest of the Latchford collection, with the Cambodian government expected to request their physical return soon. Exactly a year later these five masterpieces have come back to Cambodia.” There is no better place than Cambodia, where the people revere these objects not just for their art or history, but for their religious significance.”īradley Gordon, the lawyer representing the Cambodian Ministry for Culture, said on Wednesday: “We signed the agreement with Julia Latchford on 29 September 2020. Julia Latchford, also known as Nawapan Kriangsak, told the New York Times in January: “Despite what people say or accuse against Douglas, my father started his collection in a very different era, and his world has changed … I would like everything that Douglas assembled be kept where people around the world can enjoy it and understand it. Some of the items were sold to galleries in Australia, and in some cases have since been returned to their country of origin. On Thursday Wiener pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and possession of stolen property in connection with allegedly looted artefacts from India and south-east Asia. Two of the artefacts were sourced from Latchford. More questions were raised when New York dealer Nancy Wiener was indicted in 2016 for possessing stolen property.
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