Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi were responsible for concocting and selling $22 million in forged art.
Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi were responsible for concocting and selling $22 million in forged art.
Mark Lugo was sentenced to 16 months in jail for a casual yet brazen San Francisco heist.
The real-estate developer’s collection sold for $76 million at Christie’s in 2006. Foul play has not been ruled out.
After a meeting with German journalists, Voina members Oleg Vorotnikov and Natalia Sokol were accosted by police — so Vorotnikov pulled a Jason Bourne.
Police found how-to guides to art forgery in his studio, along with 19 fake paintings.
Gallerist Margaret Howell claims that former Nickelodeon artist Todd White perpetrated systematic fraud on galleries and fans.
An accomplice to the theft of five paintings from a Parisian museum confessed that he tore up the works and put them in a trashcan.
The paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani, and Léger remain missing.
In a Cologne courtroom, Wolfgang Beltracchi also talked about his dislike of the art market and his youthful hallucinogenic drug use.
Leaked trial documents state that the alleged plotters had been searching for Vilks at the Göteborg Biennial, armed with a knife.
