Stolen Rembrandt painting confiscated 
 
  
Copenhagen Police has confiscated a stolen Rembrandt painting worth at least
DKK 250 million. The painting was stolen from Stockholm's National Museum in
2000 
  
A stolen Rembrandt painting, worth at least DKK 250 million, will soon be
returned to its rightful owner, Sweden's National Museum in Stockholm, after
police confiscated it in a sting operation in Copenhagen on Thursday.

Four men are to appear before a judge in Copenhagen on Friday on charges of
handling stolen goods. The men were arrested as the police seized the
painting from a hotel room on Thursday evening.

The painting was stolen in an armed robbery at the museum in Stockholm in
December 2000.

The four men, two Iraqis, a Swede, and a Gambian, were caught red-handed
while showing the painting to people they thought were potential buyers.

'We have been running an operation for a while based on a suspicion that
there would be an attempt to sell the painting in Copenhagen. The painting
is now with us,' said Copenhagen Police Chief Inspector Per Larsen.

The theft from the museum in Stockholm was one of the most spectacular
heists in Swedish criminal history. Three armed men came running into the
museum, stole three paintings - two Renoirs and the Rembrandt - and escaped
in a getaway boat. The robbers waylaid the police by setting cars on fire in
nearby streets.

In the beginning of 2001, Swedish police made the first arrests in the case,
and for a while 13 people were imprisoned for participating in the robbery.

Eight of the 13 were sentenced to prison for the robbery, the kingpins to
more than six years of incarceration.

Five of the men were sentenced to pay SEK 320 million to the National Museum
in damages to the Rembrandt and one of the Renoirs. The third painting was
discovered unscathed in April 2001 and returned to the museum.

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/90860.html
 
 

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