Contrary to initial reports, stolen from the Cairo museum painting by the Dutch master is not found, said Minister of Culture of Egypt.
Painting Brush Dutch painter Van Gogh valued at about $ 50 million was stolen from a museum Mahmoud Khalil in Cairo on Saturday.
Earlier it was reported that hot on the trail, the Egyptian police have arrested at the airport in Cairo two Italian nationals who tried to take the stolen painting across the border.
However, according to Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, he was given "inaccurate" information, and the picture is not yet detected.
Farouk Hosni said that the cloth was cut from the frame, shortly after the museum opened to visitors.
The minister said that police examined records cameras and questioned employees of the museum. At the same time, all ports and airports of the country were alerted to the theft.
http://gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2010/08/22/n_1537178.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/interna...t_stolen.shtml
http://www.topnews.in/law/van-gogh-p...-museum-224616
(With the image of the painting)