months after the disappearance of the London dealer Inigo Filbrich, in the fall of 2019, accused of fraud, it turned out, that it wanted not only some of the plaintiffs in his case —его former clients that he was able to sell the same picture, but the U.S. Department of justice.

Former business partners Filbrich one after another receive the agenda and requests from Federal authorities to provide access to all documentation related to the business of art-дилера.

the Increased activity of the authorities associated primarily with the amount of the alleged fraud. According to the materials of the case, the Philbrick not only sold the same painting of Rudolf Stingel worth several million dollars at least three buyers, but he managed to take out a loan secured by the same pattern and tried to sell it at Christie's, giving the auction house a copy of the forged letter from the owner of the work, proving his right to sell the painting.

, And yet the plaintiffs insist on the seizure of property and business Filbrich, which, according to various estimates, can cost anywhere from $70 million to $150 million, and the fugitive art-дилера and then notice in various exotic locales — in the Bahamas, Tokyo, Australia and the Islands of the South Pacific, the U.S. attorney's office collects additional information about the activities Filbrich, assuming one found the episode a fraud, the case may not be limited to.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Source: news.artnet.com