Douglas Latchford

Douglas Arthur Joseph "Dynamite" Latchford (15 October 1931 – 2 August 2020)[1] was a British art dealer, smuggler and author.[2][3][4][5] He is known for being a prominent collector and trader of Cambodian statues and artefacts, which he illegally smuggled out of the country during the civil war and Khmer Rouge eras, and sold to prominent museums and art collectors. He was charged with fraud in 2019 for falsifying the origins of traded antiquities. Since his death in 2020, millions of dollars worth of artefacts smuggled by Latchford have been repatriated to Cambodia.

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