Art robbery ranks according to data of interpole apart from drug and slave trade among the criminal crimes. In Austria for example per day a work of art is stolen, in Germany is it on the average seven. An estimation FBI numbers the annual damage on approximately 8 billion dollar (2005).

According to data of the kind Loss register works of art are most frequently stolen by Picasso, and Chagall.

Often art thefts are committed by organized criminals. The works of art are used as investment of funds or as currencies. It is simpler to settle a worth millions Drogendeal with a picture than with money, which must become "washed" only.

In the course of the Iraq war numerous valuable exhibits from the archaeological museum in Bagdad were stolen. Pieces of booty of the plunderings partly emerged on art auctions and with private collecting tanks.

The robbery from works of art to the purpose of the extortion one calls Artnapping.

Of national places in the course of wars drawn in art articles are called booty art.

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