They recover two works by Rubens and Renoir valued at 52.7 mp

L After a year of investigation, the Italian police spotted two stolen paintings in 2017, from the famous painters Auguste Renoir and Pedro Pablo Rubens, valued at $ 30 million.

The agents said the works were stolen from Monza, a town in northern Italy, by a man who was presenting false documents in which he claimed to be of Israeli nationality.

The accused, according to the authorities, tried to give "the coup of the century", claiming to be a rabbi named Samuel Abraham Lewy Graham, but his real name is Nenad Jovanovic, 44, a Croatian, with a locker judicial. 19659004] The paintings that he allegedly stolen are The Holy Family of Rubens, and The Daughters on the Grbad, of Renoir. The works come from an art dealer who owns two galleries in London

The authorities said the thieves had signed a false contract committing them to pay 30 million dollars (52.7 million pesos according to the exchange rate of yesterday) for the paintings and that when the dealer was distracted they took the work and escaped.

Police said the paintings were found in a warehouse in Turin, Italy; There are eight suspects, including four Italians and one Croat who were arrested last month in the case.

The robbery took place on April 20, 2017 in an office that the criminals pbaded through the headquarters of the Honorary Consulate of Albania in Monza. The gallerist presented himself with the two paintings, protected in two wooden boxes, and found the fake "rabbi" and a companion. In one piece, the contract was signed for 26 million euros and, under the pretext of verifying the authenticity of the works, the two criminals approached another room where the gallerist had left the two canvases

. of distraction, the rabbi and his companion left with the two paintings that they loaded onto a Peugeot. The rabbi and the fake diplomat become pilots of a movie action: he escapes at high speed, losing the seller and his companions, who pursue them without success: the two paintings are in one warehouse in the province of Turin, preserved, waiting to be sold on the black market of art, an easy task because of the great value of the works.

There is security on the part of the experts that The Holy Family is an original work. Some doubts remain on the canvas Girls on the grbad attributed to Renoir.