{"id":9557,"date":"2010-09-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/25\/dozens-of-stolen-artifacts-recovered-in-bali\/"},"modified":"2010-09-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T12:00:00","slug":"dozens-of-stolen-artifacts-recovered-in-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/25\/dozens-of-stolen-artifacts-recovered-in-bali\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Of Stolen Artifacts Recovered In Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartaglobe.com\/home\/dozens-of-stolen-artifacts-recovered-in-bali\/395162\">www.thejakartaglobe.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA, INDONESIA, September 7, 2010: Police have seized 144 stolen sacred Hindu artifacts from three storage facilities in Bali after arresting the suspected thief, a 50-year-old Italian national, last week. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, police raided a warehouse on Jalan Mertanadi in Seminyak, where they recovered 20 artifacts depicting various deities such as the God Vishnu and sacred animals like Garuda the bird-god. The day before, police confiscated 24 pratimas, or religious effigies, in a raid on an art shop on Jalan Teuku Umar in Denpasar. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These artifacts that we have confiscated are connected to the string of pratima thefts at various Hindu temples across Bali,&#8221; Adj. Comr. Soma Adnyana, chief of Bali Police&#8217;s criminal unit, said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Police believed that the suspect, Roberto Gamboa, was a collector of stolen artifacts. Last week, they arrested the Italian and confiscated 110 pratimas at a villa belonging to him. Police also discovered 35,000 ancient Balinese coins, several Sanskrit scriptures and golden statuettes. Police later arrested Gamboa&#8217;s alleged accomplices <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thejakartaglobe.com JAKARTA, INDONESIA, September 7, 2010: Police have seized 144 stolen sacred Hindu artifacts from three storage facilities in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}