4) Caravaggio's "Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence ," $ 20 million
Disappeared from the chapel of San Lorenzo in Palermo in 1969. The main suspects in the theft were considered representatives of the Sicilian Mafia , but intelligence agencies for a long time could not find any customers or performers nor the painting .
In 2009 Gaspare Spatutstsa killer in court said that the painting was kept in a shed on the family farm Pullara . Mafiosi not feel the need to take care of the web, and it gnawed rats and pigs. Realizing that the damaged canvas will not be able to sell , it was burned .
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