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There’s nothing you can do with a stolen famous painting. It’s essentially worthless as your clientele know it’s worth and that it’s stolen. Stolen art only gai
by glouwbug 3y ago
There’s nothing you can do with a stolen famous painting. It’s essentially worthless as your clientele know it’s worth and that it’s stolen. Stolen art only gains to make the art more famous
- fastball 3y agoWhat do you mean? There are absolutely people willing to buy stolen art.
- gitaarik 3y agoIn the article it says that the criminals had a hard time selling the stolen painting, and it was mostly used as down payment.
- gnulinux 3y agoWhat? Aren't stolen high art pieces used as their own currency in the dark web for "priceless" services. I was told that criminals use stolen art for payment and it just goes around one criminal to another. Is this just an urban legend, is it inaccurate?
- patmorgan23 3y agoIf someone steals the Mona Lisa, who are they going to sell it to get cash? Why would someone accept a stolen Mona Lisa as payment? How are they going to reliably turn it into cash?
- gnulinux 3y agoI think you misunderstood what I said? They don't turn it into cash, they use it as payment for "priceless" services. Say, you pay someone "Mona Lisa" for an assassination, and they take it, then they themselves use it to hack into some high profile person or Nation State actor etc... So, ultimately these art pieces are just their own currency, they're never turned into cash until they're busted. They go from one criminal to the other for special services. I have no idea if this is accurate in reality but I read this in some sources (blog posts), so just wanted to share.
- lmm 3y agoYou can do the only thing you should be buying a painting for: look at it and enjoy it.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoTrue. There was an infamous case in the Netherlands were the Bulgarian thieves realised their mistake and burned a million euro painting in their mother's stove to get rid of the evidence. Criminals contrary to Batman cartoons aren't geniuses.