Closing in on the stolen 24m Turners The fate of the Tate Gallery's two Turner paintings stolen while on loan to a German gallery six years ago may now depend on the struggle for power among Serbian gangsters. NIGEL ROSSER reports on delicate negotiations with their intermediaries

Evening Standard - London | November 24, 2000| | Copyright

IN A cheap motel in a small windswept town in northern Germany, the City of London loss adjuster shifted uncomfortably in his seat as the police informer finished his schnapps and prepared to talk about the art theft of the decade - the robbery of the Tate galleries' 24 million Turners.

The loss adjuster, Mark Dalrymple, was hoping for a lead.

He had paid the informer several thousand pounds in "expenses" as an encouragement.

Flanked by two plain-clothed German detectives, the man slowly recounted an intriguing tale of how the paintings had been stolen from a Frankfurt art gallery in July ...

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