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Intensified sellers with fakes signatures Burliuk, which at Ibee registered in Budapest.

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New York art dealer given 18 years
 
In New York, convicted art dealer Lawrence Salander (Lawrence Salander), was found guilty of embezzling $ 120 million from customers and investors. According to Bloomberg, 61-year-old gallery owner sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment with possibility of parole no earlier than six years.
In addition, the judge ruled that Salander must pay victims $ 114 million compensations, if ever he will be able to find enough money for this. "

Among the people who deceived art dealer, were celebrities such as tennis player John McEnroe and actor Robert de Niro. In total, as the AFP, the victims of deception became 30 art lovers.

The judge, a verdict on Salander, stressed that the art world is all based on trust. "In the present case, this trust has been betrayed" - quotes the judge Bloomberg.

Lawrence Salander was arrested in March 2009, about a year and a half after he and his gallery Salander-O'Reilly Gallery were declared bankrupt. Initially, he was accused of embezzling $ 88 million in 26 collectors, but later appeared in the new episodes.

According to the indictment, for many years, art dealer appropriated money from the sales of foreign works of art and conducted illegal operations with investments. He also charged that took Bank of America loan for two million dollars bail someone else's property.

It is noted that Salander had lived in a big way: buying up expensive paintings and real estate, only fly in private jets.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/08/04/salander/

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These masterpieces recently proposed in Odessa.

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Despite the summer break in the art world, the Bulgarians are working ...

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Fake Chagall. (2005)
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From the history of antique living in Minsk.
28.10.2005, 15:48 Culture

For half the year in Belarus, buy and sell works of art not only through the commission store or on the black market, but in a civilized manner - at auction. Their hosts an antique-auction house "Paragis", the only of its kind in the territory of the republic. In May, the auction was sold to the picture without a name, which is shown by her bird dubbed "the Rooster". Starting price for the lot of Belarus unprecedented - 450 thousand dollars. A total and does even more - 650,000. At the September auction "Paragis" put lithograph "Woman-Bird". She also bought, though, much cheaper - for 3 thousand dollars. Both paintings are declared to be works of Marc Chagall. His granddaughter, vice president of the Committee Chagall (France), Madame Meret Meyer Graber categorically asserts that sold "Paragisom" pictures - a fake. Director of antique auction houses Andrey Berezin insists otherwise.
 "Warhead" became curious, what in fact was sold to the Belarusian auction. And was it? ..
 
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