Showing posts with label book theft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book theft. Show all posts
April 26, 2024

Georgia's Prosecutor Pursues Criminal Charges Against Four Nationals in Book Theft Investigation

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Yesterday Bakur Abuladze, First Deputy Prosecutor General of Georgia announced the arrest of four individuals in the Eastern European countr...
August 1, 2023

Harlan Crow, the recently restituted Plannck I Columbus letter incunabulum

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In mid July, those following restitution news might have read about the United States and Italian authorities  happily announcing the restit...
January 21, 2021

A striking blow to the prosecution for embezzlement of volumes stolen from the Biblioteca dei Girolamini in Naples.

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The Biblioteca dei Girolamini in Naples In a striking blow to the prosecution, former senator of Forza Italia, Marcello Dell'Utri has be...
October 6, 2020

Rare Books in an Even Rarer Recovery

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On 29 January 2017 an organized crime group from Romania targeted and robbed over 200 rare books from a warehouse in Feltham, West London.  ...
February 13, 2017

Theft: Antiquarian Booksellers Association's reports dramatic book thief heist of 160 texts, some from the 15th and 16th centuries

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The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard have confirmed a brazen the theft at ...
December 7, 2016

Seizure: Cairo International Airport - Islamic-era manuscripts and antiquarian books

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On November 28, 2016 customs agents at Cairo International Airport foiled a plot to illegally export a shipment of antique Islamic-era ...