Feds Raid Manhattan Storage Facility to Recover Buddhist and Hindu Art

NY POST
By Jamie Schram, Laura Italiano and Dan Mangan

One of the statues on display at Chandra Kapoor's
"Art of the Past" gallery on Madison Avenue.

NEW YORK---An Upper East Side art dealer today was charged with receiving more than $20 million worth of stolen Indian antiquities -- as federal authorities raided his Manhattan storage facility and seized a stunning haul of religious artifacts looted from temples. Subash Chandra Kapoor, 63, owner of the Art of the Past gallery on Madison Avenue, is currently in custody in his native India on a related case of antiquities theft. He had been arrested on an Interpol warrant in Germany last fall, and was extradited to India two weeks ago. Kapoor, who has done business on the Upper East Side since 1976, appeared in a court in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. [link]