The $65 million art heist that put "Oceans Eleven" to shame - A billionaire playboy’s alleged murder is at the center of the world’s most confounding heist job.

In mid-October 2012, operating under the cover of a moonless night, a team of Romanian criminals broke into the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. The mastermind was a 28-year-old named Radu Dogaru. He and his small crew had moved from the tiny Romanian village of Carcaliu to the Netherlands for a better life. But in order to make ends meet, they started breaking into private residences — until, that is, a poster for Kunsthal caught their eye.


For the next few days, Dogaru and his crew cased the joint, along with assembling a shopping list for their heist. Then, not long after October 15th became October 16th, they struck, snatching seven asterpieces in all: Claude Monet’s “Waterloo Bridge” and “Charing Cross Bridge,” Lucian Freud’s “Woman With Eyes Closed,” Pablo Picasso’s “Harlequin Head,” Henri Matisse’s “Woman Reading in White and Yellow,” Paul Gauguin’s “Woman Before a Window” and Jacob Meijer de Haan’s “Zelfportret.”


The next morning, they piled the stolen artwork into a car and drove off, heading back to Romania. Slipping over borders, the crew successfully escaped the Netherlands with an estimated $65 million worth of master paintings.

So where did they go? https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...tantin-dinescu


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Olga is on her own. Her son is in prison, being held on suspicion of having committed what they are calling on television ‘the art theft of the century’. She knows that the accusation is correct. Along with friends, her son Radu stole seven valuable artworks from a museum in Rotterdam, loaded them into a car and drove them to Romania. Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Meijer de Haan and Freud. On
television they are talking about a loot worth hundreds of millions of euros. The amount is not important to her. The pictures are evidence against her son and destroying the evidence seems like the only way she can help him.


The artworks go up like tindersticks.

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