It was one of the most notorious heists in history. March 18, 1990 under the cover of night from the Museum Isabella Stewart Gardner in Boston were abducted 13 valuable works, including works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas and Manet. Overall rating of the stolen paintings, drawings and objects is about $500 million, and for the history of art they truly priceless, because those confirmed works of Vermeer, for example, are known in the world only 34, and stolen from the Gardner Museum "Concert" was among nih@

Investigation does not stop here for 25 years. Two years ago, in March 2013, the FBI reported that they knew the perpetrators. About the detention of the question, and the names were not disclosed in the interests of the investigation. Paintings also were never found. Yesterday, U.S. law enforcement authorities have uncovered the General public is one of the mysterious circumstances of this case. While video recordings from surveillance cameras the day of the robbery was not preserved (the thieves took her with him before you leave the Museum), but there is a recording made the day before the crime — 17 March 1990. And it turns out, exactly one day before the robbery, the middle of the night, the Museum was visited by an unknown man. He came by car, by the descriptions of eyewitnesses, in General, similar to the one used the day after the robbers. In the Museum he went through a seldom-used entrance, and the guards missed it freely, which was categorically against pravil@

Entry with surveillance cameras is a very bad resolution, but law enforcement agencies, however, hope that someone will recognize this man or his car. All who have something to say about this video, is asked to contact the FBI or the Museum. All video can be downloaded the website of the Ministry of justice SSH@

IN 2013 for information which would lead to the return of all work, was promised a reward of $5 million For information about one or more works will be paid a part of this Summy@

the Robbery occurred in the early hours of March 18, 1990. Two white males in the form of officers of the Boston police requested access to the inside of the Museum through the same door, and the man behind the day before. The guards, they reported that they had received a signal about a possible entry into the territory of the Museum of strangers. Contrary to the rules of the Museum, the guards let them. The thieves tied up both guards and chained cuffed them in different parts of the building. The suspects have not brandished weapons, and any weapons during the robbery was not applied, were not activated nor the alarm button or the call button to the police. The thieves took a picture of Vermeer's "the Concert", three paintings by Rembrandt, five works by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Govert Flinck, antique Chinese bronze beaker and the fleuron of the Napoleonic period in the form Orla@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Источники: justice.gov, artinvestment.ru