 Symes was also found to have systematically under-reported the size of the payments he received from wealthy clients - he testified in court that he had sold an Egyptian statue of the Greek god, Apollo to an Arab sheikh for £1.1 million, when in fact the sheikh had paid Symes £3.1 million.Another Egyptian statue, supposedly sold for £2.5 million, in fact went for £5.5 million, and Symes also claimed to have sold some art deco furniture for £2.8 million, when in reality it sold for £9.7 million.Symes claimed to have assets stored in only four facilities, but investigations proved that he had secreted his vast collection across some 29 storage facilities in London, New York and Switzerland, and much of this material is now thought to have been looted from archaeological sites in Italy and other locations by gangs of "tombaroli" (tomb robbers) affiliated with the now-notorious Italian 'art dealer' Giacomo Medici.