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Press Association 2021
Carabinieri officers of the art squad’s archaeological unit pose with a headless Roman statue wearing a draped toga in Brussels
Italian police said they have recovered a 1st century Roman statue that was stolen from an archaeological site in 2011 and found in a Belgian antiques shop by two off-duty Italian art squad police officers.
An Italian businessman who used a Spanish pseudonym has been referred to prosecutors for further investigation into allegations he received and then exported the statue abroad, the Carabinieri art squad said in a statement.
The Togatus statue, featuring a headless Roman wearing a draped toga, has a value of 100,000 euros (£86,000).