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Latchford's practice of buying directly from farmers and dealers in Thailand. He also insisted that if the antiquities were not removed from Cambodia, “they would likely have been shot up for target practice by the Khmer Rouge.” In November 2019, Latchford, by then comatose, was charged by prosecutors in New York with falsifying the provenance of Khmer works of art, but the case ended with his death.
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Latchford liked to see himself as saving works of art that had been abandoned and were at risk during
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