Russia sentences secret agents over theft of Gutenberg Bible

Russia has sentenced three agents belonging to its Federal Security Service (FSB) for trying to sell a rare 15th-Century
Bible, officials say.


Colonel Sergei Vedishchev was given more than three years in a penal colony for stealing the two-volume Gutenberg edition from Moscow State University.

He had offered it to a collector for under $1.15m (£700,000; 1.07m euros), a fraction of its estimated value. His two accomplices received lighter sentences for trying to
find a buyer. The three men were caught in a sting operation by their own agency.