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Dutch police say Romanian authorities arrest 3 suspects in multimillion dollar art heist

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File - This photo released by the police in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, shows the painting \'Waterloo Bridge, London\' by Claude Monet. Romanian authorities have arrested three suspects in last year\'s multimillion euro (dollar) theft of paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others from a Netherlands art gallery, Dutch police said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, but the stolen works have not been recovered. The seven pieces were swiped by thieves in October in a late night raid at the Kunsthal gallery in downtown Rotterdam. It was the biggest art theft in more than a decade in the Netherlands. The stolen works have an estimated value of tens of millions of dollars if they were sold at auction, but art experts said that would be impossible following the theft. (AP Photo / Police Rotterdam, File)

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – Dutch police say authorities in Romania have arrested three suspects in a multimillion euro (dollar) art heist from a Rotterdam gallery last October.

Rotterdam Police spokeswoman Yvette van den Heerik tells The Associated Press that the seven paintings, including works by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, have not been recovered.

They were swiped last year in a late night raid at the Kunsthal gallery.

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