Dutch police arrest man over £18m theft of Van Gogh and Hals paintings
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels from World news | The Guardian on (#5G7WK)
Search continues for Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring and Two Laughing Boys, stolen last year
Dutch police have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals with an estimated value of 18m during night-time raids on museums in the Netherlands last year.
The unnamed man was arrested on Tuesday morning at his home in the central town of Baarn over the thefts of Van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring and Hals's Two Laughing Boys.
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