France, the former director of the Louvre investigated for trafficking in antiques

PARIS – For years he was one of the most powerful men in the art world, at the helm of the Louvre from 2013 to 2021. For a few hours Jean-Luc Martinez is under arrest on charges of money laundering and complicity in organized fraud. The investigation of the French justice into a vast traffic of stolen antiquities in the Middle East led up to the former director of the largest museum in the world.