[2] However, the Government of Mongolia declared an interest in the skeleton and obtained a restraining order preventing the sale from being completed.

[5] The United States Attorney's Office filed a complaint with the court with regard to the false import documents and to seize the skeleton with the aim of repatriating it to Mongolia.

He also argued that while the Constitution of Mongolia prohibited export of "culturally significant" artifacts, it did not apply under United States law.

[8] In May 2013, the United States returned the skeleton to Mongolia,[9] where it was put on display at a pop-up museum in Sukhbaatar Square in the capital, Ulaanbaatar,[10] and then exhibited in Darkhan.

[11][13][14] In 2015, American actor Nicolas Cage returned a Tyrannosaurus bataar skull he had purchased in 2007 (after outbidding Leonardo DiCaprio).