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Resale price of stolen gold tea bowl doubled within hours

From asahi.com

The pure gold bowl stolen from a Tokyo department store was resold for more than 4 million yen ($25,800), more than double the price the suspected thief got in the first sale, police said. The quick sales of the luxury item have raised eyebrows among industry insiders. According to police, an antique dealer in the capital’s Koto Ward bought the bowl for around 1.8 million yen from Masaru Horie on April 11, a couple of hours after it was stolen from the Takashimaya department store in Nihonbashi. The dealer resold the bowl for over 4 million yen to another dealer in Taito Ward within the day. The bowl was recovered ... (full story)

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