{"id":142932,"date":"2025-12-23T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142932"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:28:32","slug":"china-probes-museum-art-theft-claims-that-make-the-louvre-thieves-look-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142932","title":{"rendered":"China probes museum art theft claims that \u2018make the Louvre thieves look dumb\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Chinese authorities are investigating reports that cultural treasures from a leading state-run museum were secretly sold on the market by museum staff in an alleged scam that has been described as making the Louvre thieves look \u201cdumb\u201d.<br \/>\nThe scandal first came to light when a 16th-century painting that had been donated by the family of an art collector appeared for auction earlier this year.<br \/>\nA former director of the museum has since come under scrutiny after a former underling claimed that he&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3337533\/china-probes-museum-art-theft-claims-make-louvre-thieves-look-dumb?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Chinese authorities are investigating reports that cultural treasures from a leading state-run museum were secretly sold on the market by museum staff in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142932"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}