Category - Crime

Digital reconstruction of the courtyard of 'Putin's Palace,' as seen in a January 17 YouTube video posted by Alexei Navalny.

Italian Tax Police Seized $144 Million in Art and Other Assets From the Architect Who Designed ‘Putin’s Palace’ | Artnet News

6 days ago

The Louvre Plans to Take Civil Legal Action in the Antiquities Smuggling Investigation That Has Ensnared Its Former Director | Artnet News

A Curator Has Been Charged With Giving False Provenance Information Amid a Major Probe Into Louvre Abu Dhabi Antiquities Trafficking | Artnet News

1 week ago

Security footage of the theft at the Singer Laren Museum in March of 2020.

A Dutch Court Upheld an Eight-Year Sentence for the Daring Serial Thief Who Stole Nearly $20 Million in Art From Museums | Artnet News

2 weeks ago

Officials in Ibiza Seized a $460,000 Picasso Sketch That a Passenger Tried to Pass Off as a Second-Rate Print | Artnet News

Officials in Ibiza Seized a $460,000 Picasso Sketch That a Passenger Tried to Pass Off as a Second-Rate Print | Artnet News

3 weeks ago

Thieves Stole an Ancient Copper Relic Said to Contain the Blood of Jesus. Then It Turned Up on the Doorstep of a Dutch Art Detective | Artnet News

Thieves Stole an Ancient Copper Relic Said to Contain the Blood of Jesus. Then It Turned Up on the Doorstep of a Dutch Art Detective | Artnet News

4 weeks ago