Uzbek security officers prevented the export abroad of 32 paintings stolen from the State Museum

Almaty. October 16. Silkroadnews - Employees of the National Security Service (NSS) of Uzbekistan prevented the illegal export abroad of 32 paintings stolen from the National Museum of Art, report KazTAG citing local media.
During the operative-investigative measures paintings were discovered at the citizen of Uzbekistan Yuri Savinkov, a member of a criminal gang. Criminals had intended to bring and realize the picture in the CIS and Baltic countries.
In particular, from the vaults of the State Museum were stolen paintings of Russian landscape painters of the XIX century Fyodor Vasilyev and Vladimir Orlovsky, People's Artist of the USSR Ural Tansykbaev and People's Artist of Uzbekistan Ruza Charyeva.