Swedish art theft: two more arrests

Police in Sweden have arrested two more people in connection with the theft of three paintings by Rembrandt and Renoir from the National Museum in Stockholm, last month.

The police have declined to identify them, but the Swedish national news agency said one is a lawyer.

Reports say he and another lawyer arrested earlier are suspected of acting as go-betweens with the thieves in their efforts to obtain a ransom for the pictures.

The arrests bring to eight the number of people detained.

The missing paintings, which are worth about thirty-million dollars, were stolen by three armed, masked men on December 22nd.

The thieves then escaped in a motorboat, which had been waiting on a nearby canal.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service