More than 20 former and current observers on Portuguese and Spanish ships said that they had experienced tactics such as beingput under surveillance, deprived of sleep, or threatened with being thrown overboard, or having their official documentation stolen by fishing crews to conceal a culture of overfishing.
Oracle sued rival SAP in March, alleging the Waldorf, Germany-based business software specialist stole software and support documentation by using the usernames and passwords of recent Oracle customers.
(Ironically, Harp was in prison for identity theft, even as his own identity was being stolen for use in foreclosure documentation).
Replacement registration documentation is then obtained from the vehicle registration authority, with the identity of the stolen vehicle being changed to match those on the documentation.
The officials said Ms. Bines had been arrested for two crimes, for issuing driver's licenses without proper documentation and issuing identification cards that contained stolen identities.
The National Gallery began its documentation three years ago, when the issue of art stolen by the Nazis drew attention on both sides of the Atlantic.
Once, Mr. Halper mentioned rumors that the 1951 Giants had engaged in sign stealing, the most substantial documentation was perhaps by the author Ray Robinson in his 1991 book, "The Home Run Heard 'Round The World".
Objects that appear on the market without documentation leading back that far are much more likely to have been stolen or illegally dug up and smuggled out of their countries.
According to Drissa Traoré, head of documentation at the institute, thousands of valuable manuscripts were lost, some destroyed, others stolen.
The snag is that clear documentation showing the object's provenance is usually required before any action can be taken, and with inventories destroyed or missing, the business of cataloguing the stolen objects looks like being an extremely slow business.
