Van Gogh Painting Stolen From Amsterdam Found In Italy

                          
Italian police have recovered two Van Gogh painting stolen during a dramatic raid on Amsterdam museum in 2002.
The works were recovered from the Naples mafia, they said.
The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam said the works were found during a "massive, continuing investigation" by Italian prosecutors and Organised crime officials.
The paintings were taken when thieves used a ladder and sledgehammers to break into the museum. They were eventually found wrapped in cloth in a safe in a house in the picturesque seaside town of Castellammare di Stabia, near Pompeii.

The works were among assets worth millions of euros seized from a Camorra organized crime group linked to cocaine trafficking, Italians report said.
Months earlier, police had arrested several suspected drug traffickers who had invested their proceeds in Dubai, Spain and the Isle of Man. They were reportedly linked to one of the biggest mafia clans in the Scampia area of northern Naples.
Among those arrested in january were suspected drug gang leader Raffaele Imperiale and Mario Cerrone who apparently told investigators about the two paintings.
                             
The theft of the two works, valued by investigators at $100m led to criticism of security at the world's major art museums.