Xiao Yuan, Curator/Forger

Xiao Yuan, Curator/Forger

Xiao Yuan, Curator/Forger , a curator at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in southern China replaced more than 140 paintings in the museum with his own forgeries and sold 125 of them for $6 million. He later found out his own fakes were being stolen and replaced with yet more copies.

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