Nina Nazarova
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11 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Nina Nazarova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Many of the books were probably sold already somewhere in Moscow or online auctions.
men swapped mainly the first edition of what's called Russian Golden Era with forged copies.
So in some cases, it took more than a year to notice that something was wrong with the copies.
At least one of the persons already convicted for the crimes is actually cooperating with the investigation now in France.
He used to be a book restorer in Georgia, so he told me personally that he was like a sorcerer with the books.
However, he denied that he made any of the copies, but he had a great experience with restoring and working with old books.
Yes, we have clues that the market was back in Russia because another convicted person, Mikhail Zed, who is also actively cooperating with the court in France, admitted that he was doing crimes on orders from Moscow.
And he personally received $30,000 in cryptocurrency for stealing books from a Lithuanian library.
Some of the books were recovered by Europol, but none were returned to the libraries.
And many of the books were probably sold already somewhere in Moscow or online auctions in Moscow.
Yes, actually, the person I interviewed back at tea, he was talking theoretically, but he told me that it was way easier to steal a book worth thousands of thousands of dollars than, for instance, any jewelry or a piece of gold, because a piece of gold is guarded by men with guns and the old book of the same value guarded by an old lady librarian.
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