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In Amsterdam, police officers arrested one of three suspects in the theft of paintings by French impressionist Pierre Auguste in the Dorotheum auction house in Vienna. C & # 39; was a Ukrainian citizen aged 59 years.
A Ukrainian has already been convicted of a similar crime in Ukraine, writes Ukrinform. The suspect was arrested in Amsterdam in mid-December 2018 and, on December 28, transferred to Vienna, he is currently in the Austrian capital.
Also read: Three Ukrainians arrested in Poland: suspected of attempted murder
November 26, 2018 At least three people removed from the building of the Dorotheum auction in Vienna, a photo of Renoir estimated at about 120,000 to 160,000 euros.
When arresting a Ukrainian citizen in a hotel in Amsterdam, the police found a bag. According to the data from the observation cameras, Renoir produced exactly in his work. Austrian media write that a man specializes in theft of works of art
By the way, he was sentenced to death in 2005 in Ukraine for kidnapping. a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky in one of the Ukrainian museums
. A potential buyer of a stolen photo could be in Northern Europe.
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