Nowadays, the antiquities-smuggling phenomenon seems more complicated than many researchers thought before. Antiquity looting is delinquent behaviour and a criminal activity. Hence, it is closely connected to many of the other problems that Greece is currently facing. This article tries to set the smuggling problem in a wider frame. More specifically, many researchers have pointed to the long-term inability of Greece’s tax services to detect income hiding. This has led to increased tax evasion and a shadow economic phenomenon. Moreover, researchers and institutions have made the conclusion that self-employed persons / freelancers in Greece have an increased capability for income hiding, irrespective of the origin of the money. A thorough examination of the occupations of 497 arrested people in Greece revealed that, indeed, the majority of them fall in the self-employed/freelance category. The results of this article are based on the 291 official arrests that took place from 1999 to 2015.

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Parallelae Vitae：希腊的古物走私和隐性收入

如今，走私文物的现象似乎比许多研究人员之前想象的要复杂得多。古代抢劫是犯罪行为和犯罪活动。因此，它与希腊目前面临的许多其他问题密切相关。本文试图将走私问题放在一个更广泛的框架内。更具体地说，许多研究人员指出，希腊税务部门长期无法发现隐藏收入。这导致了偷税漏税和影子经济现象的增加。此外，研究人员和机构得出的结论是，无论资金来源如何，希腊的个体经营者/自由职业者隐藏收入的能力都有所提高。对希腊 497 名被捕者的职业进行彻底检查后发现，确实，他们中的大多数属于个体经营者/自由职业者。本文的结果基于 1999 年至 2015 年发生的 291 次官方逮捕。