Caravaggio stolen in Odessa found?

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The picture "The Capture of Christ in custody, disappeared two years ago from the Museum of Western and Oriental Art, allegedly put up for auction on the Moscow 2 million.

This painting was the only one in Ukraine, the original Italian artist Michelangelo Nerizi da'Karavadzho, as well as the most valuable item in the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art - painting experts estimated the cost at $ 100 million. Last summer at night (see "KP" on August 1, 2008) "Taking of Christ in custody or the kiss of Judas" was kidnapped by breaking a window in the hall on the 2 floor and casually cut out a sheet of solid frame. Since then, the fate of the paintings were not known. Suddenly the museum's director said the sensational news.

- At one of Moscow's auctions found the ad for the sale of the stolen paintings, - announced Vladimir Ostrovsky. - One of the admirers of our museum wrote me a letter in which he reported it. I checked this information and was horrified - at the Internet auction site, and indeed had been posted the painting by Caravaggio The Taking of Christ in custody "and lists the value of 60 million rubles. It is about 2 million dollars and the price - a ridiculously low for such an expensive fabric.

However, full confidence that it is the "Odessa" by Caravaggio, in Ostrovsky no. But the director of the museum is hoped that this tip-off check the Security Service of Ukraine, in which he has already appealed for help. But in the Seaside police department, who investigated the abduction of a rarity, yesterday refused to give any comments - just say that the case will be transferred to another investigator, but what, have not decided yet.

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