German police bust an art forgery ring trying to sell fake Picasso, Rembrandt works

✍️ Joe Hernandez 📅 October 26, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: October 27, 2025

Summary: The alleged leader of the scheme, a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria, also tried to sell counterfeit works supposedly by Frida Kahlo, Amadeo Modigliani and Peter Paul Rubens, authorities say.

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German police say they've broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for tens of millions of dollars to unsuspecting c

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