U.S. nurse caught stealing ancient Macedonian coins

[TrueMacedonian]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/court-bans-u-s-nurse-entering-macedonia-ancient-coins-article-1.1191200

Macedonia bans U.S. nurse from returning for 10 years over ancient coins
Candace Lynn Dunlap, a nurse from Meridian, Alabama, was arrested at the country’s main airport with 256 ancient coins in her carry-on luggage. Some estimate the coins were up to 2,200 years old.

SKOPJE, Macedonia — An American who was caught trying to leave Macedonia with more than 200 ancient coins has been convicted of violating the country's strict law protecting it archaeological heritage and given a two-year suspended sentence.

In Wednesday's ruling, the court also banned 45-year-old Candace Lynn Dunlap, a nurse from Meridian, Alabama, from returning to Macedonia for 10 years.

Dunlap was arrested at the country's main airport last month with 256 coins in her carry-on luggage. Local news media said the coins were up to 2,200 years old.

The defendant said she was given the coins by a Macedonian man as a present and was unaware of any wrongdoing.

Dunlap was due to leave Macedonia late Wednesday night.


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[Macedonian_Nationalist]

You can't fuck with the law, lady.

[Bill77]

You can't fuck with the law, lady.

Unless you are willing to pass some under the table to Macedonian authorities.

[makedonche]

Stealing Macedonian history......maybe we should insist on the US changing their name? or imposing a Framework Agreement on them? or imposing Albanian as an official language on their passports!

[Vangelovski]

Unless you are willing to pass some under the table to Macedonian authorities.

That was her mistake - she didn't spread the love.

[George S.]

That must be a tip of the iceberg.How much goes through undtected.I remember years ago before the law forbidding of selling of macedonian historical artifacts.Someone in mavrinci found a macedonian helmet.The greeks would have paid about 1 million marks for the helmet.They would have said they found it in northern greece.Lucky the person handed it to the rom govt archaelogy dept.

[Bill77]

That was her mistake - she didn't spread the love.

hahaha well she should have known it works for Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians......well anyone for that matter of fact, our people with any authority from private business owners to Government are corrupt bastards. Dollar comes before else.

[George S.]

welkl there is a case that some people will sell their soul for love but there are others who will sell antiquity for a whole lot more.,With so much corruption people turn a blind eye.

[DedoAleko]

American deported from country, gets 2 years parole for trafficking ancient artefacts

A judge in Skopje, Macedonia ruled early today that an American woman (Candi Dunlap), accused of trying to smuggle 256 coins out of the country considered historical artifacts by the government, will be released, but that she’s banned from entering Macedonia for 10 years.

Dunlap also must serve a two-year parole from Macedonia in the United States.

Dunlap has been jailed since Sept. 28 in Skopje. Macedonian Customs officials said they found the coins and several other ancient historical artifacts in her carry-on luggage when she and members of a medical mission team from Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Meridian were leaving the country. Dunlap has said she received the coins as a gift from a Macedonian citizen and that she had no idea of their value or that they couldn’t be transported.

The Macedonian Customs officials had difficult time believing Dunlop's story. "A single coin which is worth good money, maybe was a gift, maybe... but 256 ancient coins?" an anonymous Customs official was quoted as saying.

The Skopje judge too had major doubts about Dunlop's story, hence the verdict.

izvor: http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22085/45/