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Almost 100,000 artworks are stolen every year. In 1990, two thieves stole 13 paintings, worth half a billion dollars. So, what’s the deal with art-napping?
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After Drugs and Guns, Art Theft Is the Biggest Criminal Enterprise in the World
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/07/18/after-drugs-and-guns-art-theft-biggest-criminal-enterprise-world-260386.html
“June 2014, and an unusual three-day conference is taking place in the basement room of New York University’s School of Law. ”
Recovery rate for stolen art as low as 1.5%
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Recovery-rate-for-stolen-art-as-low-as-/31145
“The rate of recovery and successful prosecution in cases of art theft is startlingly low, with one expert putting it at only 1.5% globally, The Art Newspaper has learned, underlining the challenges of identifying and returning stolen works.”
Nazi-looted Rothschild art goes to MFA
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/02/22/rothschild-heirs-donate-works-once-looted-nazis-mfa/64Axq5tuhcHrKxR4kVI0sI/story.html
“‘Geronimo!’ That’s the message Matthew Looram cabled his mother-in-law, as the train carrying hundreds of the Rothschild family’s artworks barreled through the Austrian Alps and into Switzerland.”
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I like how Test Tube upload a couple of videos a day… Can anybody
recommend me channels like this that talk about real world topics?
Art thieves are big guys.
Its the third biggest crime but nothing is really done. I think i know why.
Payday 2 anyone?
Surprised the big heist in London (largest in UK’s history) didn’t get
mentioned as it was only a week ago!
Isn’t it about time TestTube talks about the still ongoing illegal Turkish
occupation of Cyprus?
Why funding ISIS is such a big business.
Exactly, I always wondered who would buy stolen art when they can’t display
it! By the way u didn’t answer the question in the title, u should’ve told
who buys it and what they do with it. I think they ask for ransom…
I’m still waiting the day when someone steals that ugly painting called
Mona fugly lisa.
Popcorn isn’t real.
*grabs god
There wouldn’t be so much drug, gun, and art crime if America had a
government of the working class who looked after people well enough so they
wouldn’t need to steal.
Okay need a squad of 5 people who’s in?? We all go halves
How powerful is Art
Stealing art is an amazing art itself.
How powerful is Saudi Arabia ?
Rockstar should take notes here and pull out some art heists in their next
update…
How powerful is Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and
Uzbekistan?
How powerful would Scotland have been?
How powerful would the UK have been left?
How powerful is Madagascar?
Why Art Theft Is Such Big Business: http://youtu.be/ltUMeYxMpNY
YOU belong in a museum.
Why ISIS is destroying antiquities in Iraq ?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/12/video-islamic-state-nimrud/25667399/
Who are the most oppressed people/persons in the world.
This ain”t assassin’s creed unity.