(21 July 2015) The Telegraph reports that in an audacious heist worthy of a Hollywood plot – a librarian at a leading Chinese fine arts gallery is accused of stealing 143 paintings by grandmasters over the course of two years and replacing them with his own forgeries .
Xiao Yuan, 57, told a court in southern China yesterday that he had substituted the famous works while overseeing a gallery within the library of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts between 2004 and 2006.
The Telegraph has the story in full.
