A judge in Argentina on Tuesday placed the daughter of a late Nazi under house arrest after police failed to find a painting believed to be in her possession, which was stolen from a Jewish person during the Holocaust.

The federal court at Mar Del Plata, a city situated about 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, placed Patricia Kadgien and her husband under house arrest for 72 hours on suspicion that they had interfered with an investigation into the whereabout of “Portrait of a Lady” by the late-Baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi, Argentina’s La Nacion newspaper reported .

Law enforcement agents in Argentina last week raided the couple’s house in search of the painting , but the object had been removed by the time they arrived. Three additional raids were authorized at properties belo

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