[UPI News] – DAEJEON, South Korea, June 28 (UPI) — Three people were sentenced Friday in Daejeon, South Korea, for stealing two ancient Korean Buddha statues from Japan, court records said.The three were part of a gang of seven, all South Korean, arrested this year after stealing the statues from the Kaijin shrine in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, slipping them through South Korean customs and attempting to sell them in South Korea, the Yonhap News Agency reported.One statue was made in the eighth century, the other in the 14th century, giving them cultural status tantamount to national treasures, Yonhap said.
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