Man admits swapping classic Chinese artworks for fakes he painted himself

Xiao Yuan stole 143 works from the Guanghzou Academy of Fine Arts while working as its chief librarian, making £3.5m from auction sales

A former university librarian has admitted stealing 143 paintings by famous Chinese artists from a gallery he was in charge of and replacing them with fakes he painted himself.

Xiao Yuan, 57, substituted valuable works including landscapes and calligraphies between 2004 and 2006, while working as the chief librarian in a gallery within the library of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in south-east China.

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