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Cleaners and customer service staff duped people bringing
works of art through the oversized baggage areas, national
police said in a statement.
"Using the uniforms they normally wore to work in the airport,
they easily convinced people that they were providing a genuine
service and managed to swindle them," the police said.
By the time the victims realized what had happened, the
paintings had been whisked away and hidden, ready to be sold on
the black market.
Two paintings by contemporary artists Ugo Attardi and Renato
Guttuso, valued at more than 50,000 euros ($55,000), stolen in a
particularly lucrative haul a few days ago, had been recovered.
(Reporting by Isla Binnie)
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