The Italian mafia continue to find the stolen masterpieces
ARTinvestment.RU   13 февраля 2017

This time was taken 14 works, among which was the work of Salvador Dali

here then there is the Italian mafia bosses and people associated with them, emerge work, long sought by museums and collectors. For example, last year there were two van Gogh paintings stolen in 2002 from the Museum of the artist in Amsterdam: customer robbery was the Neapolitan Camorra.

And last week, the Italian carabinieri confiscated 14 paintings in the South of Italy — in Reggio-ди-Калабрия and Sicily. All these works are considered part of the collection of businessman Gioacchino Campolo (Gioacchino Campolo) associated with mafia groups, the Camorra and ndrangheta. Kampala, nicknamed the "King of videopoker" was arrested in 2011 for participating in the Scam with the slot machines. It was confiscated and his property worth more than $400 million, including 125 works of art — including works by Dali, De Chirico and Lucio Fontana (though the authenticity of these, 22 subsequently, experts have questioned). Seized these works became the property of the state and was exposed to the public in the Palace of culture of Reggio-ди-Калабрия.

In early February, the police got a warrant to search residential premises in Reggio-ди-Калабрия belonging, apparently, one of the former subordinates Gioachino Campolo. In the apartment were found the painting "the Miracles of Christ (Christ healing the blind)". Search our database of stolen works gave a positive result: it turned out that this work was stolen in Randazzo, Sicily in 2001.

From this apartment the thread was pulled for another — in Messina. During the search, it was found 13 works, including "Tree head" by Salvador Dali and a sculpture of Christ. The owner of the apartments was charged with possession of stolen goods.

Sources: art-crime.blogspot.ru, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru



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