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Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books
Suspects alleged to have posed as academics to access books and replace them with copies, says Europol
Police have arrested nine Georgians suspected of running a sophisticated criminal operation stealing valuable antique books – including an original Alexander Pushkin manuscript – from national libraries across Europe.
Shelves of 19th-century Russian-language literature had been ransacked over two years across several countries and replaced by fakes, Europol, the EU police agency revealed on Thursday.
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