THE HAGUE: Five stolen 17th and 18th-century masterpieces were handed back to the Netherlands on Friday, foreign ministry officials said, and will soon return to a local museum from where they disappeared 11 years ago.
“Ukrainian authorities have handed over five Dutch paintings to the Westfries Museum. The handover has just taken place at the Dutch embassy in Kiev,” the ministry said in a statement.
Twenty-four Dutch Golden Age masterpieces and 70 pieces of silverware were stolen from the Westfries Museum in the northwest town of Hoorn on the night of January 9, 2005.
At the time of their disappearance, the paintings were …read more
Source: The News International
