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Thursday, November 17, 2005
FBI names top 10 world art crimes
By Vincent Dowd The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified what it has called the top 10 art crimes worldwide.The FBI's list of stolen artworks includes paintings by Edvard Munch and Benevenuto Cellini, as well as thousands of items missing in Iraq. The decision to set up an FBI Art Crimes Team in November 2004 was in part an acknowledgement of the obvious - that art crime is now big business. ...