Penelope Jackson is the author of a book that considers how illicit activity differs when undertaken by women

Italian Lanfranco Cirillo—whose 150-strong art collection was seized last year—will be tried in absentia by an Italian court next month for tax and money laundering crimes

Police are investigating the theft of five paintings from a vehicle in a hotel car park

The Carabinieri accuse four people of downgrading and illegally exporting the Old Master work, which has now been returned to the show in the Palazzo Ducale

Decades after it was stolen from the Worcester Art Museum, collector Clifford Schorer spotted a missing Dutch Golden Age painting printed on a throw pillow

After seven years of investigations, Ruffini has been handed over to French authorities, likely setting the stage for a trial in Paris

Announcement was made during the trial of six men which began in January and is due to resume this week

Belle et Belle gallery has now been dissolved, closing the chapter on a decade-long criminal investigation

The 77-year-old, wanted by French police for "fraud, money laundering and forgery of works of art", was released after ten days in custody

The French dealer, who is under investigation for selling a series of allegedly forged paintings, has had a warrant out for his arrest since 2019

Authorities received an anonymous tip regarding an object listed for sale on the auction house’s website and described as a Mescalero Apache scalp

The objects associated with Kapoor, along with another five pieces returned to Pakistan, were cumulatively valued at $3.4m

The sandstone vishnu statue was stolen from a seventh-century temple and smuggled to Manhattan in 1995, when it was sold to a private collector

The ruling culminates an extensive investigation into a smuggling ring headed by Kapoor

Verdict for the owners of Belle et Belle is expected in November

Court documents from the ongoing Inigo Philbrick fraud saga reveal that the secretive art market and the sheer attractiveness of its lifestyle will always suck the punters in

Collector Martin Mobarak purportedly set a 1944 Kahlo drawing on fire in a martini glass while a mariachi band burst into song during a ceremony at his Miami mansion

Newland was arrested in the UK in February and extradited to the United States in September, where he admitted his role in the $86m scheme for which Inigo Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in prison

The coin, a Quarter Shekel valued at $1m, was looted in from Israel in 2002 and had been headed for auction before being recovered by US Homeland Security agents in 2017

Lotfi addresses allegations that led to a warrant being issued for his arrest in a statement and interview, giving new details on the extraordinary story of the Metropolitan Museum's gold sarcophagus

Owner of L’Etoile d’Ishtar gallery said artefacts from Saqqara necropolis “should be restituted to Egypt” but insists he purchased them in good faith

The artefact, seized in Memphis, Tennessee, was en route to a collector who is believed to have falsified statements regarding its value

Case has so far seen Middle Eastern works seized from New York's Met and the indictment of a former Louvre director

Staff at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa noticed that the frame of the 1941 photograph did not match others in its reading room

The art dealer Tristian Koenig is accused of selling works by emerging artists and making off with the profits

The works, including pieces by Do Amaral, Di Cavalcanti and others, were seized from the home of a man involved a bizarre scheme to swindle the widow of a famed dealer

Georges Lotfi has been accused of handling the types of materials he helped the police recover and repatriate for years

Lanfranco Cirillo, who is currently in Moscow, is under investigation for tax crimes

If judges rule that the owners of the work broke the law, the painting will be definitively confiscated by the state and could be donated to a museum

A painting of a princess possibly by the Old Master has been sold digitally—but questions remain over its provenance, the inherent value of non-fungible tokens and who owns what