Established the identity of those who steal valuable paintings from the Boston Museum in 1990
Police promised reward of $ 5 million for any information on the whereabouts of paintings stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Boston FBI office to establish the identity of those who committed one of the most daring robberies of the twentieth century - the theft from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. In the night from 17 to 18 March, two men under the guise of police entered the building, tied up the guards and taken out of the museum's three paintings by Rembrandt, five sketches by Degas, Manet and on work of Vermeer, as well as landscape Govert Flinck, a Chinese ritual vessels and a bronze eagle. Total 13 pieces stolen, worth about $ 500 million (at current rates of the art market for works of this class).
investigation went as much as 23 years and finally the police know the names of those who did . We are talking about some kind of a criminal group operating in the Middle Atlantic states and New England. The names of the suspects were not disclosed press.
Unfortunately, the current location of the stolen art and antiquities is unknown. Although some of the movements of the museum exhibits after stealing police know. With high probability, the pictures after the robbery went to the state of Connecticut and the Philadelphia area. About ten years ago, they tried to sell in Philadelphia. Since traces of stolen items were lost.
Police promised a $ 5 million reward for information about the location of objects. As for the criminals, they may no longer be held criminally responsible for the lapse.
Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI
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