Italian Authorities Say Caravaggio Stolen In 1969 May Have Been Hidden In Switzerland By The Mafia

Almost 50 years after a Caravaggio was stolen, "the new lead on the whereabouts of the 17th-century painting – a depiction of the newborn Christ on a bed of straw, painted in the chiaroscuro technique – came from a former mobster-turned-informant, who revealed to Italian investigators that it had once been held by Gaetano Badalamenti, a Sicilian 'boss of bosses' who was known as one of the ringleaders of an infamous heroin trafficking network in the US called the Pizza Operation."

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