[15] He has collaborated with the art dealers Mario Bruno and Elie Borowsky, and sold material through Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses in London.
[17] In 2015 during an investigation into Gianfranco Becchina and his wife Ursula Jurascheka, a joint raid by the Swiss and Italian police discovered looted antiquities values in the tens of millions of dollars.
[18][19] In December 2019 the United States has filed a civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of an Attic Etruscan votive statuette that was recovered by the FBI and HSI years after it was illegally excavated and smuggled out of Italy.
[20] In 2023, Matteo Messina Denaro, an organized crime boss in Italy claimed that he had links to Becchina whose assets were seized in connection to the investigation.
[23] United States v. ONE ATTIC ETRUSCAN VOTIVE STATUETTE OF A FEMALE FIGURE