Police have found a Pablo Picasso lithograph that was stolen by teenagers from the northern California mansion of imprisoned former Ukranian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko.
A disturbing trend has begun taking place where teenagers will break into mansions or vacant homes to host wild parties. Critics cite this to the popular movie released earlier this year “Project X” which depicts a raucous house party.
On May 28, more than 100 local teenagers threw a party at Lazarenko’s Marin County home, where they thrashed the place and made off with laptops, leather coats, silverware and a Pablo Picasso lithograph worth $30,000.
The Picasso piece was found Sunday propped up against a fence, Marin Independent Journal reported. It appears whoever put it there wanted it to be found after the story garnered media attention.
The nine-bedroom, 19,500-square-foot house belongs to an LLC tied to the disgraced former Ukrainian Prime Minister who is currently imprisoned in Marin while seeking asylum to avoid money laundering, wire fraud and transporting stolen goods.
Lazarenko was convicted in 2004 of stealing $114 million while in office.
