Stolen Dutch paintings recovered in Ukraine - BBC News
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The recovered paintings were displayed at the headquarters of Ukraine’s security services
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Ukraine says it has recovered four paintings from a haul of 24 that was stolen from a gallery in the Netherlands more than a decade ago.
The haul of 16th and 17th century paintings was worth €10m (£8m; $11m) when stolen from the Westfries Museum in the city of #Hoorn in 2005.
The four recovered works had been “in the possession of criminal groups”, Ukraine’s foreign minister said.
Reports say they were recovered from Ukrainian ultra-nationalists.
The museum said in December that two men, reportedly from a Ukrainian nationalist militia, had presented a picture of one of the paintings to the Dutch embassy in Kiev.
At the time, Dutch media reported that the men had said they had found the entire stolen collection and demanded millions of euros for the haul’s return.
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… finding the paintings in Ukraine doesn’t make things a lot easier…