Paintings found in Ukraine back in Nov

(ANSA) - Rome, September 30 - Seventeen priceless paintings stolen from a Verona museum last November and found in Ukraine in early may will return home in November, Premier Matteo Renzi said after speaking with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko at Shimon Peres's funeral Friday.
    On May 11 police said the Renaissance paintings including canvases by Mantegna, Pisanello, Rubens and Tintoretto stolen from Verona's Castelvecchio Museum had been recovered in Ukraine.
    Local police arrested an unspecified number of people.
    A week previously one of two remaining fugitives suspected in the heist was arrested on a European arrest warrant while attempting to cross into Romania from Moldova.
    Moldovan national Anatolie Burlac is accused of being part of the gang that broke in to the museum on November 19, making off with paintings worth an estimated 15 million euros overall.
    One suspect remains at large, police said.
    The gang made off with 17 paintings, including Andrea Mantegna's Holy Family with a Saint, Pisanello's Madonna of the Quail, Peter Paul Rubens' Lady with Campions, and six Tintorettos, museum officials said.
    In March this year, the Verona flying squad arrested 12 Moldovan and Italian suspects.
    Investigators believe private security guard Francesco Silvestri, who was on duty at the museum on the night of the heist, Silvestri's twin brother Pasquale and the latter's Moldovan wife Svetlana Pkachuck acted as go-betweens for the robbers.
    photo: Boy with Drawing by Giovanni Francesco Caroto