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Couple busted with stolen painting
By JAMIE SCHRAM, LAURA ITALIANO and LUKAS I. ALPERT
Last Updated: 5:38 AM, September 10, 2009
Posted: 4:35 AM, September 10, 2009
There was nothing artful about this crime.<p> </p><br> A Brooklyn couple was busted trying to sell a painting stolen off the wall of a Manhattan museum to an undercover cop, authorities said.<p> </p><br> Denis Ryjenko, 35, and his girlfriend, Natella Croussouloudis, 42, were arrested Sept. 3 as they tried to unload a small masterpiece, "Himalayas," by the prolific early 20th-century Russian artist Nicholas Roerich.<p> </p><br> One of them even told the "buyer" the painting was hot and warned him not to hang it on his gallery wall.<p> </p><br> The $125,000 painting had disappeared along with a second work by Roerich on June 24.<p> </p><br> The second piece -- titled "Talung Monastery" and worth $70,000 -- was mysteriously returned by mail to the Nicholas Roerich Museum on West 107th Street on Aug. 14.<p> </p><br> But investigators caught wind that the couple had "Himalayas" when an informant told them the pair had been showing it off in their Midwood apartment, saying they were hoping to sell it for $40,000.<p> </p><br> The informant told the couple he would help introduce them to a buyer, who was actually an undercover officer posing as an art collector.<p> </p><br> On Sept. 3, Ryjenko and Croussouloudis -- carrying the painting in a blue paper shopping bag -- traveled to a Lower East Side Starbucks to meet with the detective, police said.<p> </p><br> While Ryjenko waited outside, Croussouloudis met with the phony collector and asked for $20,000 for the painting. She even warned him that the work of art had been stolen and that he would be unable to freely display it in his gallery, police said.<p> </p><br> The cop then asked her to come with him to his gallery where he would give her the money. As she and Ryjenko walked with him up Allen Street, they were arrested.<p> </p><br> A law-enforcement source said the couple denied having stolen the painting.<p> </p><br> But Ryjenko, who has a long criminal record, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to criminal possession of stolen property in return for four months in jail.<p> </p><br> "I knew it was stolen," he told Judge Anthony Ferrara. "I didn't know if it was real or not."<p> </p><br> Croussouloudis, who is a German national, according to Correction Department records, waived her appearance and was held on $20,000 bail.<p> </p><br> The landlord of the building where the two had been living said they owed $7,500 back rent and had recently had their power and gas shut off for failure to pay their bills.<p> </p><br> Additional reporting by Candace Amos<p> </p><br> jamie.schram@nypost.com <p> </p><br> There was nothing artful about this crime.
A Brooklyn couple was busted trying to sell a painting stolen off the wall of a Manhattan museum to an undercover cop, authorities said.
Denis Ryjenko, 35, and his girlfriend, Natella Croussouloudis, 42, were arrested Sept. 3 as they tried to unload a small masterpiece, "Himalayas," by the prolific early 20th-century Russian artist Nicholas Roerich.
One of them even told the "buyer" the painting was hot and warned him not to hang it on his gallery wall.
NABBED: Denis Ryjenko (in artist's rendition) pleads guilty yesterday to possession of the stolen painting, "Himalayas" by Nicholas Roerich.
The $125,000 painting had disappeared along with a second work by Roerich on June 24.
The second piece -- titled "Talung Monastery" and worth $70,000 -- was mysteriously returned by mail to the Nicholas Roerich Museum on West 107th Street on Aug. 14.
But investigators caught wind that the couple had "Himalayas" when an informant told them the pair had been showing it off in their Midwood apartment, saying they were hoping to sell it for $40,000.
The informant told the couple he would help introduce them to a buyer, who was actually an undercover officer posing as an art collector.
On Sept. 3, Ryjenko and Croussouloudis -- carrying the painting in a blue paper shopping bag -- traveled to a Lower East Side Starbucks to meet with the detective, police said.
While Ryjenko waited outside, Croussouloudis met with the phony collector and asked for $20,000 for the painting. She even warned him that the work of art had been stolen and that he would be unable to freely display it in his gallery, police said.
The cop then asked her to come with him to his gallery where he would give her the money. As she and Ryjenko walked with him up Allen Street, they were arrested.
A law-enforcement source said the couple denied having stolen the painting.
But Ryjenko, who has a long criminal record, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to criminal possession of stolen property in return for four months in jail.
"I knew it was stolen," he told Judge Anthony Ferrara. "I didn't know if it was real or not."
Croussouloudis, who is a German national, according to Correction Department records, waived her appearance and was held on $20,000 bail.
The landlord of the building where the two had been living said they owed $7,500 back rent and had recently had their power and gas shut off for failure to pay their bills.
Additional reporting by Candace Amos
jamie.schram@nypost.com
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/in_mountain_of_trouble_cEGa25QWnoPg4O7qLaixwO
Couple busted with stolen painting
By JAMIE SCHRAM, LAURA ITALIANO and LUKAS I. ALPERT
Last Updated: 5:38 AM, September 10, 2009
Posted: 4:35 AM, September 10, 2009
There was nothing artful about this crime.<p> </p><br> A Brooklyn couple was busted trying to sell a painting stolen off the wall of a Manhattan museum to an undercover cop, authorities said.<p> </p><br> Denis Ryjenko, 35, and his girlfriend, Natella Croussouloudis, 42, were arrested Sept. 3 as they tried to unload a small masterpiece, "Himalayas," by the prolific early 20th-century Russian artist Nicholas Roerich.<p> </p><br> One of them even told the "buyer" the painting was hot and warned him not to hang it on his gallery wall.<p> </p><br> The $125,000 painting had disappeared along with a second work by Roerich on June 24.<p> </p><br> The second piece -- titled "Talung Monastery" and worth $70,000 -- was mysteriously returned by mail to the Nicholas Roerich Museum on West 107th Street on Aug. 14.<p> </p><br> But investigators caught wind that the couple had "Himalayas" when an informant told them the pair had been showing it off in their Midwood apartment, saying they were hoping to sell it for $40,000.<p> </p><br> The informant told the couple he would help introduce them to a buyer, who was actually an undercover officer posing as an art collector.<p> </p><br> On Sept. 3, Ryjenko and Croussouloudis -- carrying the painting in a blue paper shopping bag -- traveled to a Lower East Side Starbucks to meet with the detective, police said.<p> </p><br> While Ryjenko waited outside, Croussouloudis met with the phony collector and asked for $20,000 for the painting. She even warned him that the work of art had been stolen and that he would be unable to freely display it in his gallery, police said.<p> </p><br> The cop then asked her to come with him to his gallery where he would give her the money. As she and Ryjenko walked with him up Allen Street, they were arrested.<p> </p><br> A law-enforcement source said the couple denied having stolen the painting.<p> </p><br> But Ryjenko, who has a long criminal record, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to criminal possession of stolen property in return for four months in jail.<p> </p><br> "I knew it was stolen," he told Judge Anthony Ferrara. "I didn't know if it was real or not."<p> </p><br> Croussouloudis, who is a German national, according to Correction Department records, waived her appearance and was held on $20,000 bail.<p> </p><br> The landlord of the building where the two had been living said they owed $7,500 back rent and had recently had their power and gas shut off for failure to pay their bills.<p> </p><br> Additional reporting by Candace Amos<p> </p><br> jamie.schram@nypost.com <p> </p><br> There was nothing artful about this crime.
A Brooklyn couple was busted trying to sell a painting stolen off the wall of a Manhattan museum to an undercover cop, authorities said.
Denis Ryjenko, 35, and his girlfriend, Natella Croussouloudis, 42, were arrested Sept. 3 as they tried to unload a small masterpiece, "Himalayas," by the prolific early 20th-century Russian artist Nicholas Roerich.
One of them even told the "buyer" the painting was hot and warned him not to hang it on his gallery wall.
NABBED: Denis Ryjenko (in artist's rendition) pleads guilty yesterday to possession of the stolen painting, "Himalayas" by Nicholas Roerich.The $125,000 painting had disappeared along with a second work by Roerich on June 24.
The second piece -- titled "Talung Monastery" and worth $70,000 -- was mysteriously returned by mail to the Nicholas Roerich Museum on West 107th Street on Aug. 14.
But investigators caught wind that the couple had "Himalayas" when an informant told them the pair had been showing it off in their Midwood apartment, saying they were hoping to sell it for $40,000.
The informant told the couple he would help introduce them to a buyer, who was actually an undercover officer posing as an art collector.
On Sept. 3, Ryjenko and Croussouloudis -- carrying the painting in a blue paper shopping bag -- traveled to a Lower East Side Starbucks to meet with the detective, police said.
While Ryjenko waited outside, Croussouloudis met with the phony collector and asked for $20,000 for the painting. She even warned him that the work of art had been stolen and that he would be unable to freely display it in his gallery, police said.
The cop then asked her to come with him to his gallery where he would give her the money. As she and Ryjenko walked with him up Allen Street, they were arrested.
A law-enforcement source said the couple denied having stolen the painting.
But Ryjenko, who has a long criminal record, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to criminal possession of stolen property in return for four months in jail.
"I knew it was stolen," he told Judge Anthony Ferrara. "I didn't know if it was real or not."
Croussouloudis, who is a German national, according to Correction Department records, waived her appearance and was held on $20,000 bail.
The landlord of the building where the two had been living said they owed $7,500 back rent and had recently had their power and gas shut off for failure to pay their bills.
Additional reporting by Candace Amos
jamie.schram@nypost.com
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