(19 Nov 2013) Romanian prosecutors have asked for 18-year sentences for two men who admitted stealing seven paintings worth millions, including works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse, from a Dutch museum in a daring nighttime raid.
Closing arguments were heard in Bucharest on Tuesday in the case of Radu Dogaru and Eugen Darie.
They will be sentenced on November 26.
Defence lawyer Catalin Dancu said: "I wouldn't expect a conviction with the maximum sentence, as the prosecutor has asked, which could be up to 18 years. I don't expect an addition either because you can't do that to someone who cooperated with the investigators."
Dogaru, Darie and another man, Alexandru Bitu, said they took the paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam in October 2012.
They were charged with the theft and of bringing the paintings into Romania.
The stolen works have never been found, and may have been burned.
The trial of Dogaru's mother, Olga, will continue.
She told prosecutors she burned the paintings but later changed her statement.
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