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...Chinese police have revealed details of what they are calling the largest theft of cultural artifacts in the history of the People's Republic?and the heist was allegedly an inside job. Li Haitao, who was head of security at the Waibamiao museum complex in the northeastern Chinese resort town of Chengde, has been accused of carting off 158 ancient relics, some of which ended up on the black market and at the Christie's auction house in Hong Kong, according to police. (Christie's says it researched ownership and found no evidence that the pieces were stolen...
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