investigations usually, though not an ordinary crime in Pebble Beach gets scandalous touch. And more is yet more distinct. Affected Kennou Ralph (Ralph Kennaugh) and Angelo Benjamin Amadiyah (Angelo Benjamin Amadio) raining down on the police with accusations of corruption and incompetence, the police begin to suspect them of fraud, the parties accuse each other of inaction and a platform for mutual recrimination is pleased to provide the U.S. media.

So, on Friday 25 September at 18:50 local time collectors Kennou Ralph and Angelo Amadiyah reported to the office of the Monterey County sheriff that the house they rented in Pebble Beach, has been made burglary. How have suffered, they had stolen 13 valuable paintings, whose value they estimated at 27 million dollars. Among the stolen works are called canvas by Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock) worth about $ 20 million, as well as the creation Rothe (Gatja Helgart Rothe), Matisse (Henri Matisse), Miro (Joan Miro), Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), Renoir ( Auguste Renoir) and the Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh).

Shortly thereafter, between the affected and the police began differences. Last week, lawyers Amadiyah and Kennou posted a message in which the accused law enforcement agencies to delay the investigation. The statement said that experts from the Monterey County Sheriff's Office - detectives and experts who have been fingerprinted, - arrived at the scene of the crime, only three days later, on Tuesday 29 September.

The police denied this report and announced Oct. 6 at a press conference that responded promptly and did everything in their power to find the criminals and stolen property. However, they said, they never succeeded in aid from the victims themselves. Numerous requests for any information about the missing scenes have not received one response. Collectors are not handed over any photos or purchase documents or checks, no information about sellers, not even a physical description of the paintings: their size, an indication of the existing damage, and inscriptions, the presence or absence of frames. "They gave us only a list," - said Sheriff Mike Richards (Mike Richards).

For their part Kennou and Amadiyah said that they could not send all these documents to the police because they were stolen along with the pictures themselves. This is largely and suspicions on the part of law enforcement. For collectors call themselves professionals in the field of art, and professionals usually keep all documents proving provenance, apart from the works themselves - in a safe or deposit box. Therefore, the police and created a new version of the case, which they presented Oct. 6 at a press conference. May themselves Kennou and Amadiyah may be involved in some criminal activity, and there is a suspicion that they gave the police false information about the theft. For all the time that has elapsed since the commission of a crime, they could not provide any documents that would confirm the existence of the alleged stolen paintings. Instead, collectors have published reports and gave a press interview in which disclosed that the police asked to keep secret. According to Mike Richards, is, of course, hampered the investigation.

Another snag in this case related to the ransom note and threats to life and health of victims and their families. One of public communications from lawyers Kennou and Amadiyah, it was stated that it found police officers who examined the place of theft. However, the sheriff at a press conference announced that the note mysteriously appeared from nowhere and was handed over to police themselves collectors. He noted that it was still adopted in the case as one of the evidence.

The reluctance of the parties to engage constructively evident in another important aspect of the case. October 6 victims published in the media message, which called the name of one of the two agents involved in the insurance of their paintings to theft. It turned out to David St. John (David St. John) of the Company Insurance Consultants, which, as said in the statement Kennou and Amadiyah, repeatedly visited at their home in Pebble Beach to steal and have personally seen of their collection. The very same St. John confirmed in an email that actually saw the house collectors "many works". The message Kennou and Amadiyah also stated that some agents require them before your insurance to set the house alarm, but it does not allow to make the home owner.

But Sheriff Mike Richards, speaking at a press conference, said that the police had not received directly from Kennou and Amadiyah any information concerning the insurance of their collection. Therefore he could not confirm those details, which published collectors. And then, in response to a question about whether the theft be a hoax, Mike Richards replied: "Yes, it is possible».

article prepared by Catherine Onuchina, AI

Source: ksbw.com , artinvestment.ru