Robert Hecht
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Robert Hecht Hecht
Ms. Marion True and her co-defendant, the American dealer Robert Hecht, enters its fifth month, prosecutors also called on Italy's art theft police to explain the web that they say links the defendants to tomb robbers and unscrupulous dealers. Mr. Hecht, 86, has sold dozens of antiquities to museums in the United States and abroad. Ms. True and Mr. Hecht were indicted in 2003 on the trafficking charges. As the trial of Ms. True and her co-defendant, the American dealer Robert Hecht, enters its fifth month, prosecutors also called on Italy's art theft police to explain the web that they say links the defendants to tomb robbers and unscrupulous dealers. A copy of General Conforti's letter was found among the papers confiscated from Mr. Hecht's home in Paris, other investigators said on Wednesday, speculating on how it might have made its way there. Over the decades, Mr. Hecht, 86, has sold dozens of antiquities to museums in the United States and abroad.