September 27, 2021

Three convictions and one acquittal, the number of museum thefts Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been charged with.

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Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been sentenced to 8 years in prison by the Lelystad court in the Netherlands for the theft of two artworks: Vi...
September 22, 2021

How many bags of cocaine could a Monet buy?

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Back this summer shots were fired by one of two suspects fleeing the scene of an attempted theft of Claude Monet's painting De Voorzaan...
September 3, 2021

Norwegian police seize artefacts from the Martin Schøyen collection

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Weekly Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet has reported that members of the Norwegian Economic Crimes Unit, working in coordination with the Øk...

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...
September 1, 2021

New York Exhibition Review - Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art

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by Aubrey Catrone, Proper Provenance, LLC The Jewish Museum’s current exhibition Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art is ...
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August 27, 2021

The lifestyles of Cocainenomics: Dubai Police release video footage of Raffaele Imperiale and announce the arrest of another fugitive Raffaele Mauriello

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The General Department of Criminal Investigation of the Dubai Police has released a somewhat dramatic video that shows the capture and arre...
August 26, 2021

The curious case of Sadigh Gallery and the long-time coming arrest of its owner

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In April 2019 the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum cancelled the opening of its Rosetta Stone exhibit after University of Iowa...
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August 19, 2021

No longer a teflon don, Raffaele Imperiale has been arrested in Dubai and is awaiting extradition

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In October 2019 the US Drug Enforcement Administration sent documents to the Dutch police documenting a 2017 meeting between drug trafficker...
August 15, 2021

Monet (almost) stolen and shots fired at the Zaans Museum in Zaandam, Netherlands.

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_____________________________________________ Update: 16 August 2021:  14:00 CEST The Zaans Museum has confirmed that the artwork targeted b...
August 7, 2021

Sothebys, Inc. Fine Art Auctions Miami and Thut et al

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On August 3, 2021, Sotheby's filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Frédéric Thut, Betti...