Under arrest in New York: T Rex's big brother! - Americas - World - The Independent: "New York district attorney Preet Bharara ordered last Friday's arrest after a lawyer acting for the President of Mongolia interrupted a New York auction as the dinosaur was being sold for $1m (£640,000), warning that the sale violated a Texan court order restraining the disposal of the bones.
US Homeland Security and Customs officials are now investigating how the skeleton made its way from Mongolia's Gobi desert to a US auction house via a Dorset farm and commercial dinosaur hunter from Florida. Investigators say they are keen to speak to British fossil-hunter Chris Moore who runs a company called Forge Fossils in Charmouth, at the heart of"
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