Three men are going to do some time for being involved in one way or another with the theft of the two great Munch paintings last year.
Two of the convicted men were also ordered to repay the city of Oslo $121 million, the combined insured value of the paintings, which remain missing. I am hoping the city isn't counting on seeing that money anytime soon...
Saddened as I am by the still missing works I still LOVE this quote from the report..
Meticulous police work included forensic scrutiny of the Audi, which the fleeing men abandoned about a mile from the robbery, as well as tapping 60,000 telephone calls and live surveillance of Norwegian underworld figures for several months.
Ok. #1 - Meticulous?
On September 24, 2004, the paintings were transfered in a garbage bag from a parked bus to the trunk of a car, which promptly sped off. One of the convicted men testified that he had been hired to make the switch but that he did not know by whom and was never paid. Undercover investigators tailing the man witnessed the transfer, a few miles west of Oslo, but did not intervene in time to rescue the paintings.
and...#2 -
Norwegian underworld figures ?
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