Detained in Moscow traders forged paintings

[Dogel]

Employees GUUR Russian Interior Ministry in cooperation with the Russian Federal Security Service, State Ministry of the Interior
Russia in Moscow suppressed the activity of a criminal group, engaged in fraud, trafficking in cultural property.
Members of the fraud group - a resident of the Smolensk region in 1952
birthday and his 30-year-old daughter - were detained in Moscow when trying to
selling 141 fake paintings by Russian artists of the first half
XX
Ages of 2.5 million rubles.
As have informed "MK" in GUUR MVD, investigators learned that
a citizen seeking a buyer for the sale of supposedly authentic
works of Russian avant-garde painting and drawing the early twentieth century. In
during the search operations
events revealed that all products offered for sale
art is a forgery. Police officers found that the organizer
fraud only in the last year sold 273
fake
pictorial and graphic works totaling more than $ 13
million
rubles. Building a criminal scheme, the attacker has organized
"Family" business - established involvement in the commission of
Fraud
their relatives: a 30-year-old daughter and 60-year-old twin brother.
Operatives also established the identity of the manufacturer of forged
paintings.
General Directorate of Criminal Investigation in cooperation with the Russian Interior Ministry Federal Security Service
Russia and the Research Affairs of Russia in Moscow carried out a series
operational and investigative activities in the city
Moscow
and the Smolensk region in order to arrest the suspects in the act. In
result of the father and daughter were arrested in the hotel "Izmailovo" in
allegedly trying to sell 141 authentic works of art for the two
million 500 thousand rubles.
At the same time in the city of Smolensk region Desnogorsk held
searches for
addresses of the suspects, seized a large quantity of counterfeit
works of art and stamps, blanks, paints, canvases, as well as
other evidence.
Currently, steps are being taken to establish the other episodes
criminal activities of the detainees.