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The Pandora Papers expose how figures like Douglas Latchford operated within a clandestine network. Latchford’s dealings involved collaboration with unscrupulous dealers and complicity with looters on the ground. Records and receipts recovered through negotiations with his family reveal a systematic flow—artifacts moving from temples to London, then to New York or abroad. Many of these objects entered prestigious museums via false provenance or dubious transactions, with some dealers and collectors unaware of their stolen origins.