Showing posts with label art and organized crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art and organized crime. Show all posts
January 22, 2023

Four confessions to a museum burglary all started with a photo of the Green Diamond

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This month, has proved an interesting month in the ongoing trial of six burglars, believed to be responsible for the theft of 18th-century j...
December 17, 2022

Recovered: (Some) of the Jewels Stolen in the November 25, 2019 Green Vault Burglary at Dresden's Residenzschloss.

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On 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dresden Castle in Saxony, Germany and smashed...
September 3, 2021

Six members of the Remmo family are formally indicted in Dresden for connection to the 2019 Grünes Gewölbe burglary

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Yesterday an indictment was filed at the state court in Dresden, Germany formally charging six individuals, aged 22-27 with serious gang the...
January 19, 2021

Recovery: "Salvator Mundi", stolen from the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore, is recovered by Italy's Polizia di Stato

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A lesser-known 15th-century version of the contentious  "Salvator Mundi" , most likely painted towards the end of the second decad...
November 17, 2020

Three suspects in the burglary theft at the Green Vault have been arrested in Berlin.

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Image Credit: Saxony Police One year ago, on 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dre...
February 25, 2020

Mild prison sentences handed down in organized crime-related theft at the Bode Museum in Berlin

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When a giant gold coin, weighing 100 kilos was stolen from room 243 of the Bode Museum and carted off without a hitch in the early morn...
February 14, 2020

Charge of unlawful possession of items of cultural value has been added to existing charges against Vasil Bozhkov

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During a news briefing on Thursday, 13 February, Bulgarian authorities announced that they have added two additional charges to add to ...
February 11, 2020

The less than clear origins of fugitive Vasil Bozhkov's Thrace and Private Collection

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Vessel from the Panagyurishte Treasure As Bulgarian authorities work through how to get their fugitive gambling tzar extradited from t...
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January 31, 2020

Vasil Bozhkov's antiquities collection ordered to be seized by Bulgarian authorities

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The National Museum of History (NIM) has received a prosecutorial decree and a letter from the Ministry of Culture to seize and accept ...
July 22, 2018

Organised crime, museum theft and bank robbery

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On Wednesday the Berlin public prosecutor's office and the state criminal police provisionally seized 77 properties, including apar...
November 17, 2017

A Sicilian Mafia Primer to Organized Crime Members with apparent ties to Gianfranco Becchina

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This is a list of mafia-tied individuals and cooperating mafia-tied individuals authorities have stated have associations with, or wh...