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A 50-year-old man has been arrested in Austria in connection with an e-mailed threat that prompted the Belvedere Gallery to move to safety five Klimt masterpieces valued at nearly $250 million, the BBC reported. Rudolf Gollia, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the unidentified man, tracked through his Internet provider, said he Was drunk when he sent the e-mail message.... An alarm-systems engineer identified by the authorities only as Robert M., who confessed to pulling off the greatest art theft in Austrian history, said he acted on impulse while drunk in 2003, Agence France-Presse reported, citing an Austrian news agency. Ernst Geiger, a chief of the criminal police, said at a news conference in Vienna that the man first saw "La Saliera," a 16th-century gold and enamel Cellini sculpture valued at More than $60 million, on a guided tour of the Art History Museum in Vienna and thought he could easily bypass the Security system and steal it. Weeks later, the police said, the man saw scaffolding on the outside of the building and decided to use it to gain entry and carry out the theft. "The alarm system went off, but as an alarms expert, he knew he - More available

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