The repatriation, by the Head of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit Matthew Bogdanos, was achieved thanks to the long-standing and close cooperation between the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Ministry of Culture.

Two antiquities that had been illegally removed from Greek territory at an unknown time were repatriated from Bern, Switzerland.

Twenty-nine Greek antiquities, sold by smugglers, from Macedonia, Epirus, Central Greece, the Cyclades and Crete, which ended up in the USA, through the criminal networks of the illegal trafficking of cultural goods, are returning to Greece.