fracture-ins at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam and Durham’s Oriental museums marred by near-comical mishapsAn organised crime gang convicted of plotting audacious raids on museums and auction houses to steal rhino horn and artefacts worth up to £57m may have had specific Chinese buyers waiting for the goods,an antiquities expert has said.
Fourteen men have been convicted of thefts and attempted plots, including fracture-ins at Cambridges Fitzwilliam Museum and Durham’s Oriental Museum in 2012, and with the gang stealing items more valuable than this year’s Hatton Garden raid haul,according to police.
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Source: theguardian.com