Advocacy
FBI Announces Top Ten Art Crimes
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced the "Top Ten Art Crimes." The FBI Art Crime Team (ACT) estimates that these ten criminal cases, priceless in terms of their cultural value, represent losses of approximately $600 million.According to the FBI, the top ten art crimes are:
- Iraqi looted and stolen artifacts
- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft
- The Swedish National Museum theft
- Theft of Edvard Munch's The Scream
- Theft of the Cellini Salt Cellar [found in January]
- Theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francisco
- Theft of the Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius
- The Van Gogh Museum robbery
- Theft of Paul Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise
- Theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinde
Since the creation of ACT in November 2004, the agency has been involved in the recovery of more than one hundred items of art and cultural property, valued at more than $40 million.
