22 December, 1998 - 00:00
By Oleksa TYCHYNA, The Day
Two pictures stolen in 1997 from Poltava's Regional Art Museum were brought
last week to Ukraine's Boryspil International Airport by plane from Great
Britain.
An anonymous artist's nineteenth century work Turks Battling the
Crusaders and Clara Peters' Still Life (1612) were located in
the course of a joint operation by the British police, Interpol, and Ukrainian
law enforcement authorities. Four persons, among them a Ukrainian citizen,
have been tried by a British court and sentenced to varying terms.
As for their accomplices in Ukraine (who actually stole the canvases),
chances of apprehending them are very slim, says Liudmyla Vakhnina, head
of Poltava Museum's exhibition department.
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