Thursday, September 2, 2010
 

Art Crime High-Grossing and Linked to Organized Crime

The Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) has posted a study on art crimes and their relationship to organized crime.

In ARCA’s many projects and conferences, those with whom we have worked have conveyed the fact that art crime is the third-highest-grossing criminal trade, behind only drugs and arms, and have underlined with countless examples the links with Organized Crime since 1960.

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