The evidence, he said, was more suggestive of a "joy-ride half-way round the world", than of theft or anything more sinister.
From government representatives through entrepreneurs; businesspeople and celebrities; the white collar and the blue collar; criminals and lawmakers: when it comes to stealing and killing, everyone in the world of Grand Theft Auto is fair game.
Photograph: AFP Six masterpieces, worth around £80m, stolen in two raids, five days apart, in one country - it's been quite a week in the world of art theft.
So began my immersion in the animated world of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the PlayStation 2 game that comes out this week riding a wave of hype, hand-wringing and canny satire.
You can't reform policing without considering whether recorded crime is falling, at least partly because it's moving online, into a world of identity theft and increasingly sophisticated bank fraud and live-streamed child abuse perpetrated to order overseas.
Some intrepid soul has remade that nail-biting chase scene from Terminator 2, entirely in the world of Grand Theft Auto 5. Why? Christ only knows, but you have to respect their attention to detail.
Sure, the company has found moderate success with its noirish Max Payne franchise and its Midnight Club racing series, but Rockstar has been eager to demonstrate that it can create a blockbuster out of more than the profanity-spewing drug dealers and submachine-gun-toting thugs who populate the world of Grand Theft Auto.
Along with better graphics, Rockstar has thrown a bunch of little improvements into the world of Grand Theft Auto V.
But it's still yet another notch in the win column for one of the best in the business -- and unlike the get-rich quick criminals in the fictional world of Grand Theft Auto, Icahn has done it all on the up and up.
The world of Grand Theft Auto V includes a city called Los Santos.
