British Dealer Drawn Into True/Hecht Trial

“The activities of Robin Symes, a London antiquities dealer who has done business with many of the world’s top collectors, came into sharp focus on Wednesday at the trial of Marion True, a former curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Robert Hecht, an American dealer.” Specifically, prosecutors are bringing to light details of “Mr. Symes’s elaborate use of offshore companies and warehouses to buy and sell ancient artworks. Italians contend that some of these works were illegally excavated and exported.”