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Is it a Thomas Crown-style billionaire collector as Hollywood would have us believe? Alastair speaks to two of Britain’s most successful combatants of art crime – Dick Ellis (formerly of Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiquities Unit), and Julian Radcliffe (founder of the Art Loss Register, the world’s biggest database of stolen art). They reveal that billionaire thieves are a Hollywood myth. The reality of who steals art, and what happens to it, is much more terrifying…