Greek authorities on Friday announced the arrest of four people in Iraklio, Crete on charges of attempting to sell a priceless 3,500-year-old statuette of a young man, dated to the mid-Minoan era for the princely sum of one million euros.

The 30cm-high bronze statuette is of a young man in worship, his hands folded across his chest, making it a unique find of its type throughout the island of Crete. Archaeologists have dated the statuette to the 16-15 century B.C.

The case was cracked as a result of a coordinated Hellenic Police operation that culminated in the arrests of four men, two aged 35 and two aged 41 years old.

Two of men illegally possessing the statuette had shown this to unknown prospective buyers, while the other two were acting as lookouts along the route.

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