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Trial continues over da Vinci extortion charges

  • March 31, 2010 15:33
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Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519) and Workshop. The Madonna of the Yarnwinder (ca. 1501-07). Oil on panel. 48.3 x 36.9 cm (19 x 14.5 in.). © Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, KT.

On trial in Edinburgh, four soliciters deny conspiring to extort £4.25m for the return of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder painting.

The artwork was stolen from the Duke of Buccleuch's Drumlanrig Castle in 2003.

Marshall Ronald, 53, one of the soliciters, says the police were "deceptive" and he fell for their undercover operation, but he did nothing wrong. Ronald says he and the other four men on trial "had done what police had been unable to do and recovered the duke's painting."

 

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