Romanian sting recovers painting
Art thieves who tried to sell a Florentine painting worth $3.15 million to undercover officers for $6,300 have been arrested by Romanian police, officials said Wednesday.
The thieves stole “Madonna With Child, Two Saints, Two Angels” from a private collection in Vienna and transported it in the trunk of a car to the central Romanian city of Brasov, slightly damaging it, said Codrut Olaru, head of Romania’s anti-organized crime police. The thieves also took a painting by Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller worth $1.26 million, Olaru said.
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