ROME (AP).- Italian tax police said Saturday that
they had seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other giants of art in a
crackdown on assets hidden by the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy
company Parmalat. Parma Prosecutor Gerardo Laguardia said that, based
on wiretapped phone conversations, officials believed at least one of the
paintings hidden by Calisto Tanzi, founder of the dairy company
Parmalat was about to be sold. Authorities estimated the 19
masterpieces stashed away in attics and basements were valued at some euro100
million ($150 million). No arrests, as yet, were announced as part of the
art seizure.