“Stolen to order is something from the Hollywood movies,” he said. “Nobody would touch this. It’s all around the world and in all the newspapers. If you buy this, if you get caught, you end up in prison. You cannot show it to your friends, you cannot leave it to your children.”
And yet private collectors have all sorts of stolen artwork in their collection.
Heck there is an article from 5 days ago where someone stole a picasso en route to the exhibit. It’s not like they are going to disassemble that into parts before they sell it.
Mmm. Given that you didn’t bother reading the article in order to have the context to respond to, I’m not inclined to take your word for it over the source.
The article even takes theft of a Picasso as an example. In that case you know it’s not being stolen to melt down. That’s not the case here.
I read the article, the author provides no real proof of their claim. All of the prior things could have been sold as is, they just assume that people are melting it down because that’s what they would do.
Were talking about destroying something worth 100 Mil on the black market to get stones with no certificates of authenticity. Some of the bigger stone cuts themselves are unique, cataloged and easily identifiable. So they still have a huge risk unless they recut them into smaller stones. All for maybe a few million.
Its possible that’s what they are doing, it’s also completely possible they have a buyer.
The buyer was probably identified before the heist even happened.
And yet private collectors have all sorts of stolen artwork in their collection.
Heck there is an article from 5 days ago where someone stole a picasso en route to the exhibit. It’s not like they are going to disassemble that into parts before they sell it.
Mmm. Given that you didn’t bother reading the article in order to have the context to respond to, I’m not inclined to take your word for it over the source.
The article even takes theft of a Picasso as an example. In that case you know it’s not being stolen to melt down. That’s not the case here.
I read the article, the author provides no real proof of their claim. All of the prior things could have been sold as is, they just assume that people are melting it down because that’s what they would do.
Were talking about destroying something worth 100 Mil on the black market to get stones with no certificates of authenticity. Some of the bigger stone cuts themselves are unique, cataloged and easily identifiable. So they still have a huge risk unless they recut them into smaller stones. All for maybe a few million.
Its possible that’s what they are doing, it’s also completely possible they have a buyer.
It’s weird that you read the article then contradicted something in it implicitly, without acknowledging it.
They don’t say it’s impossible though, as you imply. Only that it’s very unlikely. So yes, it’s completely possible they have a buyer.
Or the buyer initiated the heist process