Paintings are seen on display during a news conference at the Ukraine’s Security Service headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. — Reuters photo
KIEV: Ukraine said Thursday it has recovered four 17th-century paintings that were stolen a decade ago from a Dutch museum and whose alleged presence in the hands of an ultranationalist Ukrainian militia had sparked a row.
Ukrainian authorities said they recovered four paintings that are part of a group of 24 Dutch Golden Age masterpieces that went missing from the Netherlands’ Westfries Museum in 2005. At the time of their disappearance, the paintings were valued at a total of 10 million …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
