Border guards of the Zhytomyr detachment helped to find a painting by Dutch artist Jan Linsen, “Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well” (1629). In January 2005, it was stolen from the Westfries Museum in the Netherlands.
Ukrainian border guards received information that a citizen of Ukraine who had traveled to Poland was looking for buyers for a valuable painting by Linsen. Buyers were also sought in Ukraine.
Interpol had sought the painting Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well for almost twenty years. At that time, 24 other paintings and 70 silver items disappeared from the Westfries Museum. Many of them are still missing.
Eventually, border guards received evidence that the man wanted to sell the stolen Linsen painting. Together with their Polish colleagues and representatives from the Netherlands, they seized the painting, and the Ukrainian who tried to sell it was taken into custody for three months in Poland.
