Each day ARCA is made aware of between five and fifty art crimes, and those are only the ones which are reported.  Here is a sample of headlines from the past week in art crime.

Selected Art Crimes from the week ending Dec. 10, '07:

- A Gold Coast man accused of what may or may not be Australia's biggest art heist went on trial yesterday for the second time this year. Brett Michael Williams allegedly stole paintings, including a reputed $150 million masterpiece by 19th century French impressionist Paul Cezanne, from colourful northern NSW art restorer John Opit in February 2004. The case, which made international headlines, first went to trial in March this year.

- Three rare manuscripts were stolen from Tehran's Reza Abbasi Museum last week.

- Indonesian police have asked Interpol to track down a Dutch national accused of stealing centuries-old Buddhist and Hindu statues from the historic city of Surakarta. The case suggests priceless archaeological artefacts have been siphoned off by museum officials.

- Hugo Kreijger, an expert in Southeast Asian art, is accused of illegally buying five statues via a broker from staff at a museum in Surakarta, central Java, and selling them to a wealthy Indonesian businessman. The artefacts are protected under the country's heritage laws. A police investigation found that the five statues had been replaced with copies, which museum officials admitted had been produced by a local craftsman for as little as 700,000 rupiah each (HK$590).

- One of the 10 sculptures stolen from Yale's Marsh Botanic Gardens last Wednesday night was recovered Saturday by the Yale Police Department, which has already identified one suspect in the theft. The recovered piece, a bronze sculpture entitled "Protecting Her Children During War #2," was valued at about $3,500, the piece's artist, Susan Clinard, said. The sculpture had been purchased by New Haven residents, who alerted the police when they saw a New Haven Register article about the stolen sculptures

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