The suspect was snagged in a police sting.

"Looters document their crimes with their own hands, and this allows us to determine the whereabouts of at least some of the stolen art," the Kherson Art Museum said.

More than 100 paintings attributed to such artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Natalia Goncharova were seized.

Among the museums accused of hiding the theft is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Last summer, the British Museum revealed that 2,000 artifacts in its holdings had been stolen or damaged, or were simply missing.

Nicholas Dombek, the final suspect in an alleged art theft ring, surrendered to authorities in Scranton, PA.

The paintings had disappeared from the town hall in Medemblik, Holland.

It took the Metropolitan police's special crime unit four years of work with Swiss authorities to bring the crime to justice.

In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel explores one of France's strangest art criminals.

Nine people are accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of sports memorabilia and fine art.