Twenty four hours earlier they had boarded the Olympic Queen disguised as crew members, following Ezra Zohar, suspected in the theft of an antiquity from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Somehow Marius True, an associate of antiquities at the Getty was involved, as were two dealers whose reputations were highly questionable... a German named Emmanuel Hechtmann and an Italian named Mario de Medici.
A priceless Euphronios krater, a red-figured Greek vase from the sixth century B.C. smuggled from an Etruscan tomb in Italy, made its way to the black market, then ending up in the Met..
