Europe busts criminal ring that's been stealing rare Russian books from European libraries
by editors@theworld.org (Carol Hills) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6MBR5)
European police have busted a criminal ring that over a period of two years stole rare books by famous Russian authors from libraries across Europe. Europol says it has arrested four Georgian nationals in Georgia and Lithuania who are thought to have collaborated in the plot, in which at least 170 books were stolen by Russian writers including Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol. Marco Werman speaks with Pierre-Yves Guillemet, an antiquity books collector and seller behind PY Rare Books in London.