[1] He is responsible of looting over 50 Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Maronite monuments as well as archaeological sites and private collections.
[2] Greek Cypriot authorities now suspect that Dikmen had a major part of stripping the churches of their treasures or at least selling them.
Dikmen sold thirteenth-century frescoes from the St. Evphemianos church near Lysi, Cyprus to the Menil Foundation in Houston, Texas in 1984.
In March 1998, after an 8-month sting operation initiated by Tasoula Hadjitofi, Honorary Consul of Cyprus in The Netherlands, Munich police recovered more treasures from apartments Dikmen had rented with a false names.
The returned loot included 30 frescoes from the Antifonitis monastery, a mosaic from Kanakaria church and a number of icons.