Heritage Watch - Preserving the Past, Enriching the Future.

The Copenhagen Post (3 February  
2009): The Danish ambassador to Italy, Gunnar Ortmann, met with  
Sandro Bondi, the Italian culture minister, several weeks ago, the  
latest event in ongoing negotiations between the two countries over  
artifacts in the Glyptoteket Museum in Copenhagen. In 2006, Italy  
requested the return of a half dozen Etruscan artifacts; in late  
2008, Italy requested the return of 100 artifacts believed to be  
illegally acquired. The museum has stated that many of the artifacts  
on the longer list were purchased after the museum personnel  
suspected of previous wrongdoing had left the museum. Some of the  
artifacts purchased by the museum during the 1970s went through the  
hands of Giacomo Medici (found guilty of dealing stolen goods in  
Italy in 2004) and Robert Hecht (currently on trial in Italy, along  
with the former J. Paul Getty Museum curator Marion True).
http://www.cphpost.dk/culture/122-culture/44647-ambassador-mediates- 
in-a-case-of-stolen-artefacts.html