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Disgraced Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Has Been Arrested on a Pacific Island and Charged With Perpetrating a $20 Million Fraud Scheme

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Jun 12, 2020
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Fugitive Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Has Been Arrested on a Pacific Island and Charged With Orchestrating a $20 Million Fraud Scheme

Jun 12, 2020
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Art dealer Inigo Philbrick, who has been accused of defrauding collectors out of tens of millions of dollars, has been arrested by US Department of Justice (DOJ) agents and charged with operating a $20 million fraud scheme. Based on the number of lawsuits and international asset seizure requests filed in the past eight months—which is around...

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