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art and organized crime
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November 16, 2017
Il vento sta cambiando, updates on Gianfranco Becchina asset seizure, fire, and vote fixing.
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Politics and mafia are both powers which draw life from the control of the same territory; so they either wage war or come to some form of ...
September 25, 2017
Stealing from the past is destroying the future.
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Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) & Director-General of the UN Office in Vienna ...
July 14, 2017
Recipe for a museum theft: 5 seized vehicles, 4 shotguns, a six-figure sum of money, and a pinch of organized crime.
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When a giant gold coin, weighing 100 kilos was stolen from the Bode Museum in the early morning hours of March 27, 2017 it was pretty ob...
February 11, 2017
Recovered: More paintings with ties to 'Ndrà ngheta
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“Miracolo di Gesù” (guarigione del nato cieco) Italian law enforcement knew they were onto something when a search warrant executed on...
July 26, 2016
Illicit Antiquities Trafficking an Ongoing, Organized Enterprise in Italy
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This week, in the town of Teano, 30 kilometres northwest of Caserta on the road to Rome from Naples, the Carabinieri formally placed under ...
February 7, 2015
Sir, how much is that (2nd Century B.C.E.) Vase in the Window? Part I
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2015 has barely started and antiquities traffickers have begun making headlines in multiple countries. In this three part series, ARCA wi...
January 26, 2015
Policeman, Antiquities Smuggler, Black Market Cigarette Bootlegger, Arms Trafficker, Terrorist: A Snapshot of the Many Faces of One, Greek, Organized Crime Cell
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Investigating organized crime links with art crimes components is complicated. Sometimes researchers are able to draw detailed maps of ...
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May 19, 2012
BBC News reports Italian police seize 100 artworks from man convicted of altering slot machines in bars and cafes
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Italian police seized 100 artworks, including an original painting by Salvador Dali, as part of an asset forfeiture of more than 330 milli...
February 3, 2011
Profile: ARCA Lecturer Edgar Tijhuis on Transnational Crime, Organized Crime and Illicit Art and Antiquities
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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin Edgar Tijhuis, lawyer and assistant-professor of Criminology at the VU University in Amsterdam, in The N...
August 24, 2010
ARCA featured in La Repubblica
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ARCA was featured in an article in Italy's leading national newspaper, La Repubblica, on 23 August 2010. The article mentioned some of ...
December 8, 2009
US Justice Department & Central Bureau of Interpol Rate Art Crime Third Highest-Grossing Criminal Trade and Links It To Organized Crime
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Statistics on art crime are unfortunately few and generally inaccurate. The reasons for this are detailed in ARCA's book, Art & Crim...
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