Turbo Paul is a social commentator and expert on organised crime involving arts, but also versed in other areas of criminality

You may remember that there was a painting by Van Gogh which was stolen a while ago. Media coverage was massive, but then the story died.

Until now. Turbo Paul has some amazing information, and makes a couple of predictions you will only hear here on the Opperman Report. It's an absolute humdinger of a story, a real old world crime caper with twists and turns and a surprises.

From The Guardian;

It was a masterpiece with a curse: an early Van Gogh worth €3m-€6m (£2.6m-£5.2m) stolen from a Dutch museum three years ago was being passed around the criminal world like a hot potato, according to art detective Arthur Brand.

“We knew that the painting would go from one hand to another hand in the criminal world, but that nobody really wanted to touch it because it wasn’t worth anything,” said Brand, who is known for retrieving stolen artworks. “You could only get in trouble. So it was a little bit cursed.”

This was the reason that on Monday night, he received an unusual visitor at the door of his apartment in Amsterdam, holding a battered, blue Ikea bag. Brand rushed up his stairs with the bag, carefully unwrapped a long painting from bubble wrap in front of a colleague recording the moment on video, and compared the back of the painting with an image he had been sent as “proof of life” that the Van Gogh still existed. It was the same. “It’s him,” he said. “Vincent van Gogh is back. What a day.”

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