A police chief investigating a claim that 113 paintings of late national artist Thawan Duchanee had gone missing from his house on Thursday cast doubt on the allegation by saying that officers could so far only confirm that 10 could not be found.

MORE THAN 100 paintings by late national artist Thawan Duchanee, estimated to be worth about Bt300 million, have gone missing from his Bangkok residence, according to the artist’s only son.