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Athens (dpa) - Greek undercover investigators Wednesday carried out a second raid on the holiday home of former Paul Getty Museum curator Marion True, on trial for antiquity smuggling in Italy.
Agents from the Department of Smuggling of Antiquities searched True's villa on the holiday island of Paros as part of a large-scale investigation after hundreds of smuggled antiquities were discovered on the tiny Cycladic island of Schoinoussa last month.
"We found another 12 items - including two marble sarcophagi, eight marble ceramics and two ancient pots which were used to store olive oil," George Gligoris, the head of the police unit which investigates antiquities smuggling, told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa from the the island of Paros.
He said that many of the pieces dated from the time of Alexander the Great. Greek state television (NET) said officials intended to press charges against True.
Investigators first raided his villa in March, when they found several undocumented artifacts. True has denied any wrongdoing. She resigned as curator of the Getty Museum last year.
Copyright 2006 dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH
