BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine prosecutors on Tuesday announced that the daughter of a fugitive Nazi officer who stole an 18th-century Italian painting from a Jewish collector during World War II was placed under house arrest along with her husband.

The new measures followed a series of police raids late Monday on homes linked to Patricia Kadgien and her husband, Juan Carlos Cortegoso, in the Argentine coastal city of Mar del Plata.

Patricia Kadgien is one of the daughters of Friedrich Kadgien, a financial adviser to Hermann Göring, the right-hand man of Adolf Hitler and an art aficionado who plundered famous paintings through the forced sale of Jewish-owned galleries in the Nazi-occupied Europe. Kadgien fled to Argentina after WWII and died in Buenos Aires in 1978.

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