Lynda Albertson
@sauterne.bsky.social
Forensic researcher and cybrarian using bibliometric analysis to develop accurate quantitative analysis on subjects of illicit trafficking, organised crime and looted/stolen art and antiquities at ARCA. Friends say I am 'fingerspitzengefühl' with data. :)
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Italian Authorities Arrest 55 Suspects in Major Archaeological Looting Probe in Sicily.
#looting #heritagecrime #tombaroli #metaldetecting #transnationalorganisedcrime #illicitexcavations
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#looting #heritagecrime #tombaroli #metaldetecting #transnationalorganisedcrime #illicitexcavations
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Italian Authorities Arrest 55 Suspects in Major Archaeological Looting Probe in Sicily
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November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Italian Authorities Arrest 55 Suspects in Major Archaeological Looting Probe in Sicily.
#looting #heritagecrime #tombaroli #metaldetecting #transnationalorganisedcrime #illicitexcavations
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#looting #heritagecrime #tombaroli #metaldetecting #transnationalorganisedcrime #illicitexcavations
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Meet our Alumni — ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series: Detective Constable Lionel Doe
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Meet our Alumni — ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series: Detective Constable Lionel Doe
"A blog about art crimes, illicit trafficking, forgery, art theft and cultural heritage protection."
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November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Meet our Alumni — ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series: Detective Constable Lionel Doe
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While awaiting trial for murdering his wife, Brian Walshe was sentenced in 2024 to 37 months in prison for selling fake Andy Warhol paintings. Today he pleaded guilty to disposing of her body and misleading police, but did not plead guilty to first-degree murder.
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Jury selection to resume in Brian Walshe's murder trial after guilty pleas on lesser charges
Jury selection is expected to resume Wednesday morning in Brian Walshe’s murder trial after he pleaded guilty just as proceedings got underway Tuesday to disposing of his wife’s body and misleading po...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
While awaiting trial for murdering his wife, Brian Walshe was sentenced in 2024 to 37 months in prison for selling fake Andy Warhol paintings. Today he pleaded guilty to disposing of her body and misleading police, but did not plead guilty to first-degree murder.
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This is why we need to keep supporting real human-made art. AI can copy, but cannot imagine. Bravo James, your “Fall of Icarus” exemplifies art and the real artists the world still needs.
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This is why we need to keep supporting real human-made art. AI can copy, but cannot imagine. Bravo James, your “Fall of Icarus” exemplifies art and the real artists the world still needs.
The France 2 television channel has looked into the recent increased looting of liturgical objects, organized by networks highlighting the work of the Central Criminal Intelligence Service of the National Gendarmerie investigating this scourge.
www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/unpj/actuali...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The France 2 television channel has looked into the recent increased looting of liturgical objects, organized by networks highlighting the work of the Central Criminal Intelligence Service of the National Gendarmerie investigating this scourge.
www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/unpj/actuali...
www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/unpj/actuali...
"Blood antiquities" and looted art taken during periods of destabilisation or war can find their way into the licit art market. To learn more about "blood antiquities" and about the profits of plunder affecting civil society, why not join us next summer.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Blood antiquities" and looted art taken during periods of destabilisation or war can find their way into the licit art market. To learn more about "blood antiquities" and about the profits of plunder affecting civil society, why not join us next summer.
www.artcrimeresearch.org/postgraduate...
www.artcrimeresearch.org/postgraduate...
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Authorities Probe Theft of Ancient Statues from National Museum of Damascus
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Authorities Probe Theft of Ancient Statues from National Museum of Damascus
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November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Authorities Probe Theft of Ancient Statues from National Museum of Damascus
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Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months.
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
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The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months.
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
On 30 Octrober 2025, right-leaning French news media outlet, Frontières, who I won't link to here named the first two arrested in the Louvre case as Ayed Ghelamallah, 34, born in Mostaganem and of Algerian nationality, and Abdoulaye Niakate , 39, born and residing in Aubervilliers. 1 of 2
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
On 30 Octrober 2025, right-leaning French news media outlet, Frontières, who I won't link to here named the first two arrested in the Louvre case as Ayed Ghelamallah, 34, born in Mostaganem and of Algerian nationality, and Abdoulaye Niakate , 39, born and residing in Aubervilliers. 1 of 2
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From Cairo to Barcelona to The Hague: How One Dealer’s Footprint Lingers in Repatriation Cases
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From Cairo to Barcelona to The Hague: How One Dealer’s Footprint Lingers in Repatriation Cases
"A blog about art crimes, illicit trafficking, forgery, art theft and cultural heritage protection."
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November 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
From Cairo to Barcelona to The Hague: How One Dealer’s Footprint Lingers in Repatriation Cases
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October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
5 more people arrested in Louvre Museum heist.
Breakthrough in Louvre Museum Crown Jewels Theft: Five New Arrests
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Breakthrough in Louvre Crown Jewels Theft: Five New Arrests
"A blog about art crimes, illicit trafficking, forgery, art theft and cultural heritage protection."
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October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
5 more people arrested in Louvre Museum heist.
It took thieves a little under seven minutes to steal the French crown jewels from the Louvre. It could take them a lot longer to make any profit from them. www.wsj.com/video/series...
You’ve Stolen the French Crown Jewels. Now What?
It took thieves a little under seven minutes to steal the French crown jewels from the Louvre. It could take them a lot longer to make any profit from them.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It took thieves a little under seven minutes to steal the French crown jewels from the Louvre. It could take them a lot longer to make any profit from them. www.wsj.com/video/series...
Poland secures return of stolen artwork that appeared for auction in Denmark.
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Poland secures return of stolen artwork that appeared for auction in Denmark
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October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Poland secures return of stolen artwork that appeared for auction in Denmark.
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Louvre Museum Robbery: DNA Evidence Leads Police to Two Suspects
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Two Suspects Arrested in Connection with the Louvre Museum Jewel Heist
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October 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Louvre Museum Robbery: DNA Evidence Leads Police to Two Suspects
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Two suspects arrested in Louvre theft.
One of whom was preparing to board a flight to Algiers.
www.20minutes.fr/societe/4181...
One of whom was preparing to board a flight to Algiers.
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Deux hommes interpellés samedi soir pour le cambriolage au Louvre
Un total de quatre malfaiteurs avaient participé à un commando et au vol de bijoux dans le Louvre
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October 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Two suspects arrested in Louvre theft.
One of whom was preparing to board a flight to Algiers.
www.20minutes.fr/societe/4181...
One of whom was preparing to board a flight to Algiers.
www.20minutes.fr/societe/4181...
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Balancing Beauty and Risk: The Challenge of Museum Security in Historic Buildings.
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Balancing Beauty and Risk: The Challenge of Museum Security in Historic Buildings
"A blog about art crimes, illicit trafficking, forgery, art theft and cultural heritage protection."
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October 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Balancing Beauty and Risk: The Challenge of Museum Security in Historic Buildings.
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While everyone who has never committed a museum theft is opining about the Louvre theft, giving opinions on how it was possible, I thought I'd highlight a museum thief's opinion on a) could it happen again and b) one person's motivations.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
While everyone who has never committed a museum theft is opining about the Louvre theft, giving opinions on how it was possible, I thought I'd highlight a museum thief's opinion on a) could it happen again and b) one person's motivations.
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
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When a stolen Picasso turns out to not be a stolen Picasso.
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When a stolen Picasso turns out to not be a stolen Picasso
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October 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
When a stolen Picasso turns out to not be a stolen Picasso.
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If one more person asks me if the Louvre jewels are in some secret lair I am going to develop a nervous tic.
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Beyond the “Dr. No” Myth: Rethinking Who Steals from Museums like the Louvre and Why
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October 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
If one more person asks me if the Louvre jewels are in some secret lair I am going to develop a nervous tic.
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Four minutes after we published this I had to edit to add in another theft this week of gold and silver pieces from the musée de la Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot.
The Louvre museum is not the only museum which has been robbed of its gold and jewel finery, here are 16 others.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Four minutes after we published this I had to edit to add in another theft this week of gold and silver pieces from the musée de la Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot.
So now we have to be subjected to AI opinions about museum thefts?
October 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So now we have to be subjected to AI opinions about museum thefts?
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Thank you to the Antiquities Coalition @combatlooting.bsky.social for interviewing me on Douglas Latchford's "first big heist," of Thailand's Prakhon Chai bronzes, and how he successfully marketed them by exploiting particular art world practices theantiquitiescoalition.org/inside-the-h...
Inside the Hunt for the Prakhon Chai Hoard: AC Interviews Dr. Angela Chiu - Antiquities Coalition
New evidence about the Prakhon Chai Hoard reveals the origins of one of the world’s most notorious antiquities trafficking rings. How did Douglas Latchford—who for decades was a “one-man supply-and-de...
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October 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thank you to the Antiquities Coalition @combatlooting.bsky.social for interviewing me on Douglas Latchford's "first big heist," of Thailand's Prakhon Chai bronzes, and how he successfully marketed them by exploiting particular art world practices theantiquitiescoalition.org/inside-the-h...
Two display cases in the Louvre Museum (the ones containing "Napoleon Jewellery" and "Sovereign Jewellery" ) are said to have been breached using a chainsaw.
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Two display cases in the Louvre Museum (the ones containing "Napoleon Jewellery" and "Sovereign Jewellery" ) are said to have been breached using a chainsaw.
it's just civil resistance they say. It doesn't damage they say. Tell that to these folks who now have to clean "First Tribute to Christopher Columbus (October 12, 1492)" by José Garnelo y Alda (1892).
Crimes against historical heritage are punishable by imprisonment under the Spanish Penal Code.
Crimes against historical heritage are punishable by imprisonment under the Spanish Penal Code.
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
it's just civil resistance they say. It doesn't damage they say. Tell that to these folks who now have to clean "First Tribute to Christopher Columbus (October 12, 1492)" by José Garnelo y Alda (1892).
Crimes against historical heritage are punishable by imprisonment under the Spanish Penal Code.
Crimes against historical heritage are punishable by imprisonment under the Spanish Penal Code.