It had been stolen several years earlier from the Montreal museum. MONTREAL—Courts in Quebec and New York have been asked to block the return to Iran of a sculpture that was allegedly stolen from the ancient Persian city of Persepolis and housed in a Montreal art museum. The 20-by-21-centimetre sculpture was seized as part of an ongoing investigation into the illicit trade of antiquities in New York. It was Bogdanos’s office that alerted Iran to the seizure of this sculpture on Oct. 27, according to documents filed in a New York court last month. A followup hearing in New York on the request to block the repatriation of the sculpture is scheduled for Dec. 18.

Source: thestar December 03, 2017 12:11 UTC