Bankruptcy trustees have proposed selling hundreds of works through the auction house, with hopes to recover up to $2m

Dimitri Simes and his wife Anastasia have been charged with three counts of violating US sanctions, including money laundering through the acquisition of art

Christian Claus faces decades in prison for faking an art heist that would have netted a co-conspirator a $128,500 insurance payout

An imitation website has been phishing for credit card details

More than 40 people bought what they thought were original paintings by Max, but were in fact prints to which the seller had added paint and signatures

The convicted art dealer is out of jail—and likely to return to the trade

Experts predict few operational changes after Sotheby’s wins fraud trial

As the trial between the Russian billionaire and the auction house is thrashed out, it may be time to consider incorporating blockchain into the art scholarship process

An active-duty senior airman was detained for his role in a scheme overhyping the value of NFTs

'Fake heiress' launches show while under house arrest in New York

Sorokin's former lawyer, who faces charges of financial crimes herself, has accused the notorious scammer with withholding payments

Angela Catherine Hamblin, who has been hiding out in a small village in Scotland for over a decade, is being extradited to the US

The former employee faces four federal charges over an alleged fraud scheme that went on for 13 years

Court documents from the ongoing Inigo Philbrick fraud saga reveal that the secretive art market and the sheer attractiveness of its lifestyle will always suck the punters in

Newland was arrested in the UK in February and extradited to the United States in September, where he admitted his role in the $86m scheme for which Inigo Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in prison

Robert Newland worked for Philbrick’s secondary market business Modern Collections before stints at Hauser & Wirth and Superblue

Martinez has been indicted for “complicity of gang fraud and laundering“ of objects purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Louvre Abu Dhabi

Philbrick pleaded guilty to an $86m fraud in November in one of the art world's highest-profile criminal lawsuits in decades

Schultz, who died last month, was arrested in 2019 on suspicion he cheated customers

The authors’ overview of the types of art crime includes serious analysis—and some entertaining tales

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Attorney general claims the auction house created and used tax exemption certificates that falsely presented the buyer as an art dealer in order to dodge payments. Sotheby's says it will continue to contest the case

Modi, who is currently held in Wandsworth Prison in London, is wanted for allegedly defrauding a state bank of £729m

An heir of an early owner claims that family members conspired to have it sold without his knowledge

US collector Linda Hickox is seeking to recover the work which was sold via broker by the now jailed art dealer Timothy Sammons

The rise of the online art market means due diligence on purchasing art is becoming increasingly complex

Authorities have accused Erdal Dere and Faisal Khan of running an alleged scheme to swindle buyers by using fake provenances

The dealer was arrested by the FBI on the Pacific island Vanuatu last month and transferred into federal custody

The Swiss art dealer had been accused of fraud and money laundering by the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev—a related case in Geneva remains active

London and Miami-based Philbrick, on the run since October, was arrested by FBI on Vanuatu on Thursday