The charges against her stemmed from the fraudulent sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture to a Hong Kong collector, while a similar claim against her over a Warhol portrait remains in German court

New report by special police force finds increase in security and surveillance technology has dissuaded dealers in stolen art

Plus, vaccine passports in museums and Gossaert's Adoration

The copy of Leonardo's $450m painting was taken from the Museum of San Domenico Maggiore last year

Sales of paintings by Cézanne and Picasso worth a combined $139m are also under scrutiny by the US Virgin Island attorney general

More than 1,600 police officers take part in raids in Berlin to solve violent theft from Dresden’s Green Vault

Isaiah Ogundele, who demonstrated outside the Museum of London, Docklands for the objects' repatriation, failed to appear at his court hearing earlier this month

Repairing the piece—on long-term loan from a private collection—will take more than a year and cost up to £350,000

Plus, art under threat in Putin's Russia and George Shaw on Thomas Jones. Produced in association with Christie's

Jonty Bravery intended to kill, judge says

Plus, Laura Cumming on Breugel. Produced in association with Christie's

The Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands is currently on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic

London-based Old Masters dealer says that the works are “an unusual group to steal—neither priceless nor small fry”

Igor and Olga Toporovsky linked to controversial show of Russian avant-garde works in Ghent

Gardener discovered the painting behind a metal plate on an exterior wall at Italy's Ricci Oddi gallery

The former husband of heiress Petra Ecclestone owes £5m in debt including an unpaid sum of £3.9m to Christie's

Theft of two paintings was thwarted thanks to gallery's security staff and systems

Investigators find paintings and rare books missing from private museum belonging to banker Alexei Ananyev accused of alleged financial crimes

District attorney says the initiative, which applies to minor nonviolent misdemeanors, promotes "human dignity"

Denis Chuprikov took the landscape from State Tretyakov Gallery with the aim of "causing hype", he says

Series of paintings at David Zwirner London are based on crime scene images released by police

Criminal investigation launched three years ago into Parisian dealers at La Biennale continues to diminish confidence in the event's integrity

Internationally renowned photographers join forces to publish a crowdfunded book in English and Mandarin that raises awareness of China’s illegal trade in animals

Suspicion aired that the 27-year-old artist may have been killed, along with his father and brother, because of his environmental activism

Compromised data included account holders’ names and email and IP addresses

In his new book The Orsay Murder Club, the art historian Christos Markogiannakis examines the horrors of the Paris museum’s collection

Incident is a further blow to English city following the novichok poisonings earlier this year

Authorities vow to find rock fan who damaged Medieval statue

Reasons and perpetrators behind the removal of the key biennial work remain unclear