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London antiques thief put a six-year

London sentenced a woman who stole works of art and jewelry at the Paris auction and jewelry houses . As reported on the website of the newspaper The Daily Mail, Shahra Marsh found guilty on 38 episodes of theft and sentenced to six years' imprisonment.

How to install a consequence, the 52-year-old Marsh, britanka Iranian origin, has been fraud in May 2005 to April 2007 on, when she was detained. Being well-educated, reading all the fine arts, and speaking in French, convicted easy part of the credibility of the antiques dealers, paintings and ornaments. She disguised as wealthy women with extensive contacts among collectors.

Using the confidence of staff and jewelry auction houses, Marsh took their valuables, promising to find a suitable buyer, or say that becoming a thing for themselves. Then moshennitsa give traders counterfeit checks and disappear.

So Marsh was able to steal property at a total cost of two million pounds sterling (3,8 million dollars). During the investigation, police found the suspect a warehouse of antique furniture, paintings, designer clothes and jewelry from a safe at a cost of 770 thousand pounds.

Source: lenta.ru


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