Blood on the Icons. As the Russian economy heads downhill, one trade flourishes - the illegal export of national treasures, especially religious icons. Private collectors have been burgled, galleries ransacked by gun-toting gangs, even detectives murdered.
Christopher Hope follows the bloody trail west talking to the ruthless criminals who mastermind the smuggling, the police increasingly powerless to stop it, and the western dealers who turn a blind eye. Producer John Drury
Editor John Morrison