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Art Dealer Andy Valmorbida Makes ‘Extremely Unusual’ Admissions In Alleged Fraud Case, Court Reports

Melbourne-born art dealer Andrew (Andy) Valmorbida, scion of an Italian-imports family dynasty in Australia, reportedly admitted to fraud involving multimillion dollars in artwork last May. A judgment was recently published following the civil case in the offshore tax haven of Jersey, part of the Channel Islands. Alleged fraudulent deals with artworks by the likes of Francis…

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Australian art dealer admits to multimillion-dollar frauds over Bacon, Basquiat paintings

A globe-trotting Australian art dealer has admitted to frauds involving multimillion-dollar artworks by Francis Bacon and Jean-Michel Basquiat in a case brought against him in the tax haven of the Channel Islands. Melbourne-born art trader Andy Valmorbida was described as “serially dishonest” in a judgment last month in a civil case in Jersey, an island off…

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Art Dealer Andy Valmorbida Confessed to Falsifying Invoices and Pocketing Profits

In an "extremely unusual" series of events, Valmorbida openly confessed to his art crimes in court. According to recently-release court documents detailing proceedings that took place this September, art dealer Andy Valmorbida admitted that he’d created fraudulent documents in order to pass himself off as the owner of paintings by artists including Francis Bacon and Jean-Michel…

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In the Name of Public Interest, a Jersey Court Released Details of Art Entrepreneur Andrew Valmorbida’s ‘Serially Dishonest’ Dealings

The court's release is unusual, as it comes in the wake of a civil settlement. The only thing more surprising than the list of financial misdeeds reportedly committed by art dealer Andrew Valmorbida in the course of doing business with a billionaire client is the manner in which they were recently revealed. The London-based entrepreneur Valmorbida was…

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