Showing posts with label organized crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organized crime. Show all posts
November 30, 2025

Archaeologist Arrested in Greece as Europol Expands Probe Into Bozhkov-Linked Antiquities Network

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The Bulgarian Anti-Money Laundering Directorate, the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office and Europol announced this month that a coordinated a...
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...
January 5, 2021

Operación Nongreta brings in three gun runners and uncovers one suspect's "museum" of Nazi-themed objects

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Image Credit: Guardia Civil Arrested in a complex multinational police action code-named Operación Nongreta one of three gun runners arreste...
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 ...
February 2, 2019

Art theft as a profitable career: An update on the Pierre-Auguste Renoir art theft in Vienna and its connection to a Ukraine art dealer.

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Image Credit Right Photo:  Vadim Guzhva - Austrian Police Image Credit Left Photo: Vadim Guzhva KP News, Ukraine On November 28, 2018 ...
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...
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 ...