The museum's former acting head of the Greece and Rome department, Peter Higgs, is facing legal action after being accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects

Research reveals that the artist began the work as a winter scene and transformed it into a spring landscape

Vittorio Sgarbi is being investigated for allegedly laundering an Old Master painting

Vittorio Sgarbi has been accused of laundering a stolen 17th-century painting attributed to Rutilio Manetti

Joanna Smith faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine

The Independent Collection Security Review urges the museum to take urgent action, including fully recording the collection and tough management changes

The Professor: Hunting for the Mafia's Missing Masterpiece follows English antiquities and ancient coins dealer William Veres as he attempts to solve the theft of a work by Caravaggio

The trial is expected to offer unprecedented insights into the inner workings of the antique furniture market that once took pride of place at Paris's Biennale des Antiquaires

Michael Maurello is also expected to pay back what he he stole from the museum

French high court rejects Martinez's appeal but drops charges against curator Jean-François Charnier in Egyptian antiquities investigation

The review team will now liaise with the police for the criminal investigation

A former police officer in California has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes over the course of seven years from an unnamed Colombian gallerist

Serop Simonian was arrested in his hometown of Hamburg and transferred to France

The former defence attorney is accused of using his position to settle scores, including against a judge who investigated the Russian oligarch in Monaco.

The film-famous footwear disappeared from a museum in the actress's Minnesota childhood home in 2005

Some of the 19 artefacts handed over by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had ties to notorious traffickers

Lewis Anthony Rath had pleaded guilty to selling fake San Carlos Apache art at Seattle retail stores

He replaced a painting by Franz von Stuck with a forgery and sold the original

"He did his job, but his job turned out to be assisting a criminal fraud," a New York district court judge said

Seized in a violent raid in 2020, returned in a blue Ikea bag—now being bought back from the insurer

He even hired Alaska Natives as clerks in his stores as part of the ruse, and will serve the longest sentence on record for violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act

Loo worth £5m was removed from Blenheim Palace in 2019

At least $230,000 worth of art and ephemera is being offered to repay creditors in the gallery's 2013 bankruptcy

Other Greek treasures would come to London in exchange for a loan of the contested sculptures

Fischer, who was set to leave his position next year, made the decision to go now amid the scandal surrounding the theft of objects from the museum's collection

The crisis at the museum raises many questions, including who can take the institution forward from here

The embattled art adviser is facing two lawsuits accusing her of running a "Ponzi scheme" and defrauding her clients

Meanwhile, Tory MP accuses Greece of "blatant opportunism" over missing items

A Unesco antiquities trafficking expert says the theft is "probably the worst case so far"

Michael Barzman will pay a fine, do community service and be on probation for his role in the forgery scandal