VAN GOGH'S STOLEN PAINTINGS RETURN TO AMSTERDAM 14 YEARS LATER.

The Italian mafia was the author of the theft in 2002 of the two works valued at 50 million euros. Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh that were stolen by the Italian mafia in 2002 have returned to the Amsterdam museum from where they were stolen. The works, valued at 50 million euros, are Scheveningen beach view of 1882 and the Congregation of 1884, a period considered crucial for the development of post-impressionist master as a painter. The works were discovered in the heart of Italy last September after a false wall in a villa that, according to prosecutors, belonged to Raffaele Imperiale, accused of leading an international traffic of cocaine.

  

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda