Not much, according to the experts: 'If you're looking for a criminal activity where you can make a fast buck and, if you get caught, not do any hard time, the art theft industry seems to be it'
, from the Louvre in Paris to keep in a trunk in his flat, he was arrested after two years, and eventually sentenced to seven months jail. Not a lot of time, one might argue, for holding the Mona Lisa hostage. Some art thiefs have particularly bad luck. In 1990, a man named Frank Cochet was stopped for a routine traffic check. While having a little look around his car, police happened to spot a series of Henri Matisse originals. Cochet had stolen $12.
The maximum prison sentence for theft is eight years, and this was given to a serial art thief who stole aOften, the more amateur museum thieves get cold feet and realise they’re out of their depth and don’t know what to do with the objects. Most kinds of art will sell on the black market – after guns and drugs, art theft is the biggest criminal enterprise in the world, worth more than £300bn – but it tends to take a sophisticated, professional criminal to make that work.
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