Italian mob’s ‘Gogh’ fellas
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.