A Dutch collector who says he bought the Zhang Gong Patriarch an ancient Buddha statue containing the mummified remains of a famous monk has been ordered to return the stolen relic to its original owners, two villages in Fujian province.
Fujian High People’s Court in East China’s Fujian Province on Tuesday issued a public verdict on the case of Zhanggong Zushi, the 1,000-year-old Buddha statue with the remains of a mummified monk inside, which upheld the ruling of first instance that Dutch appealer Oscar Van Overeem should return the statue, indicating the seven-year-long litigation has come to an end.
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FUZHOU, July 19 (Xinhua) The provincial higher people's court of east China's Fujian on Tuesday rejected the appeal of a Dutch collector, upholding the original judgement that the collector should return a stolen millennium-old Buddha statue to local villagers.
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