http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=09075
"Terming trafficking in cultural property a 'seamless trade' and pegging its value at US $6 billion annually, a high-profile United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation meet here today revealed that it was next only to narcotics trade worth $7 billion. "Trafficking in cultural property has assumed the dimensions of a seamless trade as drug cartels peddle art objects for ploughing the huge monetary gains in their narcotics trade and also for arms dealings."