Art Thief Busted: Recovering Stolen Masterpieces Worth Millions
Weban agile thief nicknamed spiderman, an antiques dealer and an art expert were sentenced to prison monday and ordered to pay paris for stealing five. Webbetween 1995 and 2001, french waiter stephane breitwieser stole over 200 paintings and objets d’art, eventually amassing a collection worth over $1bn. Webthieves stole 13 masterpieces worth $500 million from boston's isabella stewart gardner museum in 1990. The case remains unsolved. Weba few decades back, two men stole some rembrandts and other works of art from the isabella stewart gardner museum.
Webtwo men dressed as police officers broke into the boston art museum and stole 13 masterpieces, including five degas, three rembrandts and one vermeer.