A Chinese vase that was originally expected to fetch a price of €2,000 ($2,000) far outpaced its initial estimate at an auction in France this week, selling for €9 million ($8,980,000)…
Around a third of the objects were seized from the Met.
Jean-François Charnier is currently under judicial supervision.
48 artifacts from the grouping were recovered during a criminal investigation into retired hedge funder and art collector Michael Steinhardt.
The Precious Blood of Christ relics were stolen this past June.
Their suit claims that, once an excerpt of the book was published, it dealt a blow to their dealings.
The majority of the pieces that make up the new museum's collection were recovered during seizures led by the Manhattan District Attorney's Antiquities Trafficking Unit.
As more details come to light in ongoing investigation, the Louvre Museum joins as a civil party.
Authorities did not identify where the pieces were seized from.
The sale was scheduled for April 12.