Thursday, November 22, 2007

Free Play in Holland for Art-Thieves, Forgers and Dealers in Illegal Antiquities


Because fighting art-crime has a very low priority, offenders often escape prosecution. This is stated in a recently published report. An investigation carried out at the request of the Ministry of Justice shows that tracking art-criminality in the Netherlands is only ‘mediocre’. Since there is no central registration of stolen and lost objects of art in the Netherlands, it is even possible that those objects often turn up on the legal market.

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