Results for “trafficking”

The Van Gogh Museum Robbery

Thieves used a ladder to enter the Van Gogh Museum in 2002 and made off with two paintings. They resurfaced fourteen years later in the hands of a Naples crime family.

The Medici Archive Investigation

In 1995, investigators raided a warehouse in the Geneva Freeport and uncovered the archive of dealer Giacomo Medici — thousands of Polaroids of freshly looted objects that became a Rosetta Stone for the antiquities trade and drove restitutions from museums around the world.

So You Stole a Masterpiece. Now What?