This is a story about treasure, stolen treasure.

It was considered one of the worst episodes of cultural theft in the 20th century.

That's reporter Peter Worcicki.

He's been reporting on this decades-long operation,

where important cultural artifacts were looted and sold.

In the middle of all of this was Douglas Lachford,

who was instrumental in bringing lots of smuggled antiquities from Cambodia.

To places around the world and museums around the world.

And now we have new details that are reviving the calls to get these artifacts back.

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm Martine Powers.

It's Thursday, October 7th.

All week, we've been bringing you revelations from the Pandora papers

or collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

These records reveal a secret financial universe that operates just for the Uber wealthy.

And today, we're going to talk about this stolen Cambodian treasure,

what the Pandora papers showed about the profits from it,

and what action is being taken now in response to this reporting.

And we're starting with the story of Douglas Lachford.

He was, he's an Englishman who wound up in Bangkok,

became enthralled with these antiquities.

I think he, by all accounts, he really liked the artwork quite a bit himself.

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