France, Nov. 20 -- An Indian court has convicted Indian-American antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor for looting treasures worth millions of eurosin a crime spree that put a spotlight on India's art smuggling industry.

A judge this month ordered a 10-year jail term forKapoor after convicting the US citizen and his five associates on charges of criminal conspiracy, theft and smuggling of 19 Indian artefacts worth €11 million.

"His empire was much larger than what the prosecution in India presented in the court as thousands of artefacts are linked to him," a police investigator told RFI from the southern Indian city of Trichy, where the disgraced dealer is behind bars.Rogue'sgallery

The court found that Kapoor headed a network that p...