Showing posts with label art theft arrests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art theft arrests. Show all posts
October 19, 2020

5 looters have been arrested in Pella, Greece for conducting a clandestine excavation

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Image Credit:  Greek Ministry of Culture Five looters, aged 43 to 50, were arrested by law enforcement officers of the Department of Heritag...
February 16, 2017

Recovered: Here's lookin' at you kid. Stolen in Italy and found in Casablanca.

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Madonna with Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory Healer" (1639) oil on canvas 293x184.5 cm Stolen in Modena, Italy on Augu...
November 12, 2014

Ankara, Turkey: Anonymous caller breaks open case in art theft investigation at the State Art and Sculpture Museum

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By Lynda Albertson, ARCA CEO In August 2012 Hurriyet Daily News highlighted a report produced by Turkey's Culture and Tourism Minist...
September 12, 2013

Dick Ellis, ARCA Lecturer and founder of Scotland Yard's Art & Antiquities Squad, on arrests of travellers for thefts of museums and auction houses

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Dick Ellis, ARCA Lecturer, formerly of Scotland Yard When media reports announced  that police had arrested suspects for a series of a...
January 22, 2013

Organized crime unit of Romanian police arrest three men for Kunsthal Rotterdam theft; no paintings found

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Romanian police arrest three men suspected of robbing Kunsthal Rotterdam last October. Today DutchNews.nl  in its post " Three arr...
January 9, 2013

Gundlach art theft: Six people charged with first-degree residential burglary, conspiracy and receiving stolen property three months after artworks recovered

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One man has been accused of breaking into the private residence of financier Jeffrey Gundlach in Santa Monica, California, last September ...
November 8, 2012

Palais Fesch Art Theft Update: Security guard and bartender sentenced to four and two years, respectively

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Palais Fesch in Adjaccio, Corsica On October 26, 2012, two men received prison sentences of two and for years for stealing four painti...