Vadym Huzhva is, in particular, suspected of stealing the painting"Port de La Rochelle" by French Impressionist Paul Signac from the Fine Art Museum in Nancy, eastern France, in May 2018.
Investigators picked up his trail when the painting was recovered in the home of an alleged accomplice by police in Ukraine, who returned it to the Nancy Museum."I don't see how I have anything to do with this. You have no proof of your allegations," he told the court.Huzhva was alone in the dock because the three others are already in prison in Ukraine on other charges.
"That theft was truly traumatic," Nancy Museum director Richard Dagorne said of the"Port de la Rochelle", which was painted in 1915 and is valued at 1.5 million euros . Huzhva is also accused of stealing a rare book of Russian gouaches, and works by artists Eugene Boudin, Giorgio De Chirico, Eugene Galien-Laloue and Auguste Renoir from museums or auction houses across France.
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