TONY BLAIR has angrily accused the Conservative Party of undermining his efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland

TONY BLAIR has angrily accused the Conservative Party of undermining his efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. The thieves took two other paintings and three Louis XVI clocks, but left Greek and Roman sculpture and furniture by William KentArt Thieves'Top 30Pictures and drawings by famous artists listed by numbers registered as stolenPablo Picasso 394Joan Mir 281Marc Chagall 250Salvador Dali 185Albrecht Durer 145Pierre-Auguste Renoir 140Andy Warhol 129Rembrandt 127Henry Moore 80David Teniers 79Henry Matisse 66Peter Paul Rubens 58Auguste Rodin 53David Hockney 52Gustave Klimt 47Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 43Edgar Degas 43Sir Antony van Dyck 42Paul Cezanne 37Francesco Guardi 35Robert Rauschenberg 32Max Ernst 28Edvard Munch 27Edouard Vuillard 26Raoul Dufy 26Francisco de Goya 26Jasper Johns 26James Abbott McNeil Whistler 26Joseph Mallord WilliamTurner 25Claude Monet 25. It is worth pounds 4mPortrait of a Woman, by Gustav Klimt, vanished from a Italian gallery in 1997. It is worth at least pounds 2m and police believe it was probably stolen to orderDedham Mill (above) and The Valley Farm, by John Constable, valued at pounds 1m, were stolen from storage at the V&A in London, in 1998The White Duck, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, valued at pounds 5m, was stolen in 1992 from Houghton Hall, considered Britain's finest Palladian houseand Norfolk home of the Marquess of Cholmondley. Auction houses fund the Art Loss Register, a body that scans sale catalogues for stolen items. The Interpol register will include jewellery, silverware, paintings, candle sticks, regions icons, furniture and statues.The Concert, by Jan Vermeer, stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Gardner Museum, Boston, and valued at pounds 50m to pounds 80mEvening of the Deluge (right) and Morning of the Deluge, by JMW Turner, stolen on loan from the Tate to an exhibition in Frankfurt, and worth pounds 24mThe Portrait of Dora Maar, by Pablo Picasso was stolen from the pounds 151m art collection on the yacht of a Saudi Arabian multi-millionaire in Antibes in March this year while the video surveillance was switched off.

But now stolen antiques are a commodity which drug dealers use to launder money."In one of the latest scams, a gang of highly-convincing confidence tricksters posed as buyers for a bogus Italian count to steal millions of pounds worth of paintings, prints and antiques from arts dealers in London, New York, Paris and Amsterdam. Ten years ago we were dealing with a small amount of criminal elements who had sufficient knowledge of fine art to commit fine art crime It was problematic but largely containable. The Channel tunnel opened it up."It is usually sold at auction houses in France, although only the tip of the iceberg is reported. This year we have a dozen cases where property is turning up in the French market."Paintings, china, porcelain and silverware are popular, as are eagle- shaped church lecterns, sold to neo-Nazi groups who have adopted the symbol of the bird of prey. Former police officer Nick Tolson, said out of 20 brass lecterns stolen each year in England and Wales, only two had been recovered, both in Germany.Julian Cox, who works for the magazine Trace, which helps reunite recovered stolen items with owners, added: "These lecterns are being stolen, shipped to the Ukraine, Poland, and the former German Democratic Republic, anywhere there is resurgent extreme right politics to be used by neo-Nazi groups.

"Because free trade between European countries is increasing, a growing amount of property stolen in the UK is turning up abroad A lot seems to be going to France. The information will be made available to police forces, museums, auction houses, and dealers in Interpol's 177 member countries.Penny Stevenson, the arts and antiques liaison officer for Interpol UK, based at the National Criminal Intelligence Service, said a growing number of works of art were being stolen here and resold in France. Next month Interpol, the international police organisation, launches its new weapon to combat the underground industry that's worth pounds 3bn a year, a volume second only to that of the illegal drug trade. Interpol's art and antiques experts have compiled a pounds 300 CD-ROM database containing 17,000 photographs and descriptions of valuables. They are stolen - and they form part of a database of 14,000 works of art and antiques missing around the world.

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