BERLIN
— A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Odessa in the Ukraine
two years
ago was recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin,
official
said Monday. Police confiscated the 17th-century painting — known as
“The Taking
of Christ,” or “The Kiss of Judas” — and arrested the three Ukrainians
and a
Russian on Friday, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office said. On
Friday,
German police arrested four men — three Ukrainians and one Russian — who
were
attempting to sell the canvas to a buyer in Berlin. The men are
suspected to be
members of an international art theft ring.They are believed to be
members of an
international gang of art thieves, and 20 other suspected members of it
were
arrested in Ukraine, the police said.