A few words of Caravaggio.
prisoner from Odessa jail knows how stolen Caravaggio painting
Antiques from Kharkov, located in Odessa remand fourth year, says he knows how to steal "Kiss of Judas" Michelangelo da Caravaggio.
"By this involved police officers from Kirovograd. They adapted channels on the border, the pictures are sent to customers - to foreign collectors. I was personally acquainted with Nikolai Ponomarenko, a collector from Kharkov, who is trying to hang the kidnapping Caravaggio, and later found dead. He was invited to theft in Odessa assess the authenticity of "Kiss of Judas", - said the defendant Vadim G.
According to him, Caravaggio interested collectors from Europe, where the Odessa museum painting drove to an international exhibition in 2005. "Ponomarenko used blind. He had no idea what is planned theft. He was killed and then to hang everything on it ", - said the defendant.
He said that he was in the same story with a picture of Aivazovsky's "Marine species", which was stolen in Odessa in 2005. "The offense hung up on me, to confiscate my collection" - said the prisoner.
He added that the kidnapping "police-werewolves" use "burglar" who sat in prison, "take their blackmail, which is again sent to prison."
In Kirovograd oblUVD could not comment on the words antiquary, referring to the fact that they were "not in the know". No information on this subject and in the Odessa law enforcement.
Source: Today
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