Italy combats counterfeit art
by editors@theworld.org (Stephen Snyder) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6S5WT)
Police in Italy say they have busted a major criminal art-forging network and seized 2,100 fraudulent works peddled by the ring. The artwork had been attributed to Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, British street artist Banksy and other big names in the modern art world. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Laurie Rush, co-author of The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property," about how a special branch of the Italian national police, the Carabinieri Art Squad, solve art crimes in Italy and around the world.