Ukrainian border guards help recover painting sten decades ago

This was reported by the State Border Guard Service, Ukrinform saw.

After obtaining a tip, eratives probed a Ukrainian national who had left for Pand reportedly seeking contacts to sell Jan Linsen's painting "Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well", dated 1629. The culprit had also been seeking such contacts inside Ukraine.

The painting had been wanted by Interp since 2005 when it was sten from the Westfries Museum in the Netherlands along with 23 other paintings and 70 silver exhibits. Many of them remain missing to this day.

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The border eratives received enough evidence pointing to an illegal dealing in the making.

The relevant information was forwarded to the Pish border guards who confirmed the initial tip. Then the two border agencies, together with the Dutch officials, launched a joint eration to recover the artwork.

On Ukraine’s soil, the Dutch Embassy’s liaison officer was invved in the effort.

As a result of the mission, the sten painting has been successfully recovered.

Law enforcers detained and pressed charges against the perpetrator who will be remanded in custody for the next three months. The investigation is led by the District Prosecutor's Office of Krakow, Pand.

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As Ukrinform reported earlier, the Spanish pice discovered one of the five paintings by Francis Bacon, sten in 2015, Study for Portrait (Jose Capelo), dated 1990, worth an estimated EUR 5 million.

Photo: dpsu.gov.ua