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Dutch millionaire art collector and convicted war criminal Pieter Menten was awarded $46,000 by an Irish court in a 1979 case of arson at his 50-room mansion in County Waterford. Menten, 86, was released last year after serving two-thirds of a 10-year prison sentence in the Netherlands for the murder of Polish Jews during World War II. He filed a claim against the county for failing to protect his property.
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