New York Post

Italian mob’s ‘Gogh’ fellas

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Italian police recovered these lost masterpiec­es by Vincent Van Gogh in a farmhouse owned by suspected Camorra family mobsters, authoritie­s said Friday.

Cops were seizing $22 million in assets linked to cocaine traffickin­g when they uncovered the 1882 work “Seascape at Schevening­en” (right) and the 1884-85 painting “Congregati­on Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen” (above) in a farmhouse near Naples.

The paintings, stolen in 2002 from Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, were on the FBI’s list of the Top 10 art crimes.

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