[BITList] Con-men's attempt to sell forged Goya painting backfires when they are paid with fake money - Europe - World - The Independent

[Michael Feltham]

> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/conmens-attempt-to-sell-forged-goya-painting-backfires-when-they-are-paid-with-fake-money-10063027.html <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/conmens-attempt-to-sell-forged-goya-painting-backfires-when-they-are-paid-with-fake-money-10063027.html>
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> To make matters even worse, French customs later discovered the fake Swiss Francs in their suitcase, and informed the Spanish authorities
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> Two Spanish con-men’s attempted sale of a forged Goya painting backfired spectacularly after their client, supposedly a rich Arab sheik, paid them in counterfeit bank-notes worth 1.7 million Swiss Francs. The middleman who had brokered the deal then vanished with the only genuine money in the affair -  300,000 borrowed euros -  and, finally, the two con-men themselves were arrested.
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