selling stolen paintings (how?)
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- rtr
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ…
i just read this article talking about the largest panting heist in the last 20 years in Europe and I am wondering do they hold them for ransom to make money off it? How do the theives profit from this?
- mrdobolina0
rich russian gangsters buy them.
- JKilla770
the dark markets......
- Corvo0
you're looking at it wrongly. they won't make money by selling them. They made money because they were contracted to steal them.
- lol - +1sikma
- good point.mrdobolina
- -+1?kalkal
- no but rtr has a point. what's the point of stealing conspicuous works of art? for keeping. So it's paid advance.Corvo
- someday a perfect copy will be sold for a zillion dollars. Don't you see? Police get the copies.Corvo
- watch "Fake" from Orson Wells. You'll get the picture.Corvo
- I'll check it outrtr
- or "The Thomas Crown Affair" - my fav painting heist movie!
himynameischase - insurancecapsize
- sikma0
love the way 160mill of artwork is protected by a security guard with no gun. if its worth so much shouldn't it behind some sort've bullet proof glass where it would take forever to get at?
- rtr0
how will having hot property benefit even gangsters? prestige or what?
- kalkal0
Can security guards even use guns in the UK?
- mrdobolina0
Money doesn't mean anything anymore.
- mrdobolina0
sounds like it was easy as fuck.
- Llyod0
they could probably return it for a few pieces of lead