WORLD : 2 Sentenced in Theft of 3 Van Goghs
Two Dutchmen were each jailed for five years today for stealing three paintings by Vincent van Gogh last year in the Netherlands’ biggest art theft.
A Dutch court convicted Anton Willem Baeten, 37, and Anton Overweel, 30, for stealing the paintings worth up to $100 million from the Kroeller-Mueller Museum and demanding a ransom for their return.
One of the stolen paintings, “Weaver’s Loom and Weaver,” was recovered last April when the thieves left it in a car trunk and said they would destroy the other two unless they received $2.2 million. The other two paintings, “Wilted Sunflowers,” and “The Potato Eaters,” were recovered in July after the men’s arrest.
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