Security guards are seen during a ceremony to mark the return of paintings that were stolen from the Netherlands’ Westfries Museum in 2005 and discovered in Ukraine earlier in 2016, in Kiev, Ukraine on Friday, September 16, 2016. Photo: REUTERS
Kiev authorities handed over to the Netherlands on Friday five masterpieces stolen from a Dutch museum in 2005 and recovered in Ukraine earlier this year.
The paintings – part of a group of 24 works valued at 10 million euros when they went missing in 2005 – were said in December to have been discovered in a villa in a pro-Russian separatist …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
