Governments are increasingly aware of the risks involved with using shell companies and other complex dealings to trade art

Two of the men on trial were previously found guilty of stealing a giant gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017

The outspoken adviser appears to have closed her Tribeca gallery and is unreachable amid accusations that she defrauded collectors of profits from the sale of an Adrian Ghenie painting

Former OpenSea product manager Nathanie Chastain has been convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in a landmark case

The collector, Stuart Pivar, claims he sold the 1977 portrait of himself to his lawyer for $100,000 because he needed cash quickly; he is now suing that lawyer for $10m

Yuga Labs has won a partial victory in its legal dispute with artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen; the decision could impact future copyright copyright rules in Web3

Angela Catherine Hamblin, who has been hiding out in a small village in Scotland for over a decade, is being extradited to the US

A former OpenSea employee has been accused of insider trading; the outcome of the case may change the meaning of that phrase forever

President Lula’s government has joined forces with Icom in an effort to halt illegal trafficking of the country’s ancient artefacts

Nazem Ahmad, a Lebanese businessman who deals in art and diamonds, has allegedly been involved in moving goods worth more than $440m into and out of the US since sanctions were imposed in late 2019

Michael Maurello may face up to 20 years in prison for his financial misdeeds at the museum

Preston Jay Spotted Eagle has been sentenced to five years probation on charges of stealing government property from his former employer, the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfoot reservation in Montana

Michael Barzman, who formerly ran an auction company that bought and resold the contents of storage lockers, said in plea agreement that he and another man made and sold 20 to 30 fake Basquiats

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made its Nation Stolen Art File, most commonly used by law enforcement, available on mobile to the public

Internal crime agency urges vigilance, and greater efforts on monitoring and enforcement, but industry figures say study lacks focus and hard evidence of key vulnerabilities.

A man whose drunken antics at a 2017 ugly sweater party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia got him in hot water with the FBI, is expected to take a plea bargain in order to avoid jail time

Karen Lo says the dealer Pearl Lam never followed through with her purchase of a well-known painting by the secretive British artist

The painting, which reportedly features a birthday message to the American actress on its back, was seized during a smuggling raid, officials say

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess

Eduardo Ulises Martinez was convicted of illegally transporting ivory and obstruction of justice

Eight suspects are arrested and more than 1,000 works seized following investigation into forgeries of paintings by the Ojibwe artist Norval Morrisseau

Daniel Elie Bouaziz was accused of selling fake works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat

Detroit-area gallery owner Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested last year on mail and wire fraud charges following an FBI investigation

The appellate court judges’ decision came as a surprise, as the general prosecutor had asked for the charges—which relate to the acquisition of Egyptian antiquities by the Louvre Abu Dhabi—to be dropped

The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office

Vadym Huzhva handed a five-year sentence for 2018 theft and for stealing four other paintings in France, including a Renoir

Decision brings the six-year investigation into the provenance of 15,000 antiquities from Phoenix Ancient Art to an end, with only a handful found to lack proper documentation

The former employee faces four federal charges over an alleged fraud scheme that went on for 13 years

Paintings worth $400,000 that were stolen from a storage truck on 14 December 2022 have been located in a Colorado hotel room