Robert Read, head of Art and Private Clients at specialist insurer Hiscox, commented “It’s the festive season and everybody goes shopping – art criminals are no different and at this time of year jewelry and works of art which contain a significant amount of precious metals and stones are often targeted. The awful theft in Dresden [early on Nov. 25] shows just that. The thieves now face a major logistical nightmare trying to transform their ill-gotten loot into clean money and that process will offer detectives the best way to track them down. Let’s hope that they succeed and a great museum gets back what is rightly theirs.”