Did the Tate Pay Ransom?
BBC documentary alleges that the Tate Gallery paid a £3.3million ransom to recover some stolen Turner paintings.
Ex-detective superintendent Mike Lawrence told the documentary: “The deal was that the recovery of the art was more important than arrests. It was a strange feeling.”
The two works - Shade And Darkness: The Evening Of The Deluge, and Light And Colour (Goethe’s Theory): The Morning after the Deluge - were stolen from the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt in 1994 while on loan to the exhibition Goethe And The Visual Arts.