Austrian jailed for museum theft
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An Austrian security expert who pulled off a spectacular theft from a Vienna museum is jailed for four years.
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A Greek prosecutor on Tuesday charged a former curator of the American J. Paul Getty Museum with knowingly buying an ancient artifact which had been illegally dug up and smuggled out of Greece 13 years ago.
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A jobless German has been handed a  five-month suspended jail term for stealing a buffet for 60  people and eating it with friends, authorities said on Tuesday.
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A man accused of stealing two impressionist paintings in the US is jailed for three years.
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Austria's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the retrial of a man who carried out Austria's most spectacular art heist &#151; the May 2003 theft of a $65.5 million Renaissance figurine from Vienna's prestigious Art History Museum.
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A 19-year-old homeless man faces four years in prison after being arrested for sawing off the arms of a bronze statue of Pele, the Brazilian football legend, to sell for scrap.
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A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts Â documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay Â to pay his household bills.
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Paintings and other valuable works of art are stolen almost every day from galleries around the world, the most recent of course being Edvard Munch&#39;s famous &quot;The Scream&quot;.
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Austria jails a former ice skating star for eight years over a plot to kidnap a rich Romanian's daughter.
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A German journalist has been fined 100  euros ($131) after he filmed three artists stealing water from  Pope Benedict&#39;s garden hose in Bavaria to sell on Internet  auction site EBay.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - A man on Friday smashed a glass display case and tried to steal an antique silver ladle from Russia's Hermitage Museum, scene of a mass theft of artworks uncovered this year.
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afrol News, 22 August - The two masterpieces of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, &quot;Scream&quot; and &quot;Madonna&quot;, were today stolen from Oslo&#39;s Munch Museum by three armed robbers during opening hours.
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Four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet stolen from a Zurich museum are valued at more than 180 million Swiss francs (112 million euros, 164 million dollars), police said Monday.
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Two Picasso paintings worth millions of pounds stolen from art gallery in Switzerland, police have revealed
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A French court on Friday sentenced an art-loving waiter to three years in prison for stealing art works and valuable paintings from galleries and museums across Europe.
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Art theft may conjure up images of a suave movie villain creeping through a dark gallery &#151; or last year's bold daylight robbery of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from a Norway museum. Most art heists, however, are far more subtle, involving forged documents, fake prints or smuggled cultural artifacts that slowly make their way into the hands of private owners or museums.
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A man whose family forged statues and paintings and then passed them off as priceless pieces of art to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence Monday.