Art Curator's Forgery Scheme

Art Curator's Forgery Scheme

An art curator named Xiao Yuan once replaced over 140 paintings in a museum in China with his own forgeries and managed to sell 125 of them for a total of $6 million. However, he later discovered that his own fakes were being stolen and replaced with yet more copies.

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