Showing posts with label money laundering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money laundering. Show all posts
November 7, 2024

From Gallery to 'Washing Machine': How One Art Dealer’s Love for Banksy Served as Cover for an International Drug Ring

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On 11 May 2022, officers involved in the Eurojust 'Arkan' operation, assisting in the investigation begun by the District Anti-Mafia...
April 23, 2024

When a money launderer's art collection comes up for auction

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Photo Credit ANP Once upon a time, the individual pictured above, Jan-Dirk Paarlberg had a prominent place in the Quote 500,  with a fortune...
December 8, 2023

Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier and his former Russian client, oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev have settled their acrimonious business dispute

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Image Credit: Anne-Gaëlle Amiot Back in May 2013, Swiss businessman and freeport mogul, Yves Bouvier drew international interest when he neg...
August 13, 2023

Thoughts on the confessions of Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro during his February interrogation

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A man of many "pezzini" As mentioned in an earlier ARCA blog post this week, Matteo Messina Denaro, the former fugutive Cosa Nostr...
September 4, 2022

A Worm(ser) in the IADAA apple barrel

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On March 30, 2016 in Paris, France UNESCO held a large multidisciplinary symposium examining the movement of cultural property in 2016.  The...
May 25, 2022

Justice Rendered: The final confiscation of properties and business enterprises of Gianfranco Becchina has been confirmed.

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DIA Seizing Gianfranco Becchina assets in 2017 Italy's Direzione Investigativa Antimafia,  the country's Anti-Mafia Investigation De...
June 14, 2020

On the run high-flying art dealer Inigo Philbrick apprehended

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Image Right: "Humidity", 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat acrylic, oilstick, and Xerox collage In a reality that seems like a ...
April 2, 2019

Beautiful April Fools Day pranks and still no sign of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi

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Yesterday, it appears that the art and museum world ran amok with April Fools Day fake news on the whereabouts of Leonardo da Vinci’s Sal...
January 12, 2019

Salvator Mundi: a tale of power, intrigue, betrayal and seemingly immeasurable sums of money

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By:  Lynda Albertson When the painting,  “Salvator Mundi”  (Savior of the World), attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, was sold at Chri...