Police seize stolen Caravaggio, make arrests

Submitted by rossini on 29 June 2010 - 11:27am

BERLIN — A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Ukraine two years ago was recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin, official said Monday. Police confiscated the 16th-century painting — known as "The Taking of Christ," or "The Kiss of Judas" — and arrested the three Ukrainians and a Russian on Friday, Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office said. They are believed to be members of an international gang of art thieves, and 20 other suspected members of it were arrested in Ukraine, the police said.

read more at http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gD_zsVCP2PAuin8bpWGi61... (English) and or http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFinanciero/Portal/cfpages/contentmgr.cf... (Spanish) and or http://www3.lastampa.it/arte/sezioni/news/articolo/lstp/256802/ (Italian) and or http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,703386,00.html (German)

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