Counterfeit art scam
In 1995, the past threatened to catch up to Wolfgang Beltracchi. As subsequently reported in the German news magazine , a scientific investigation initiated in Munich by the buyer of a purported Molzahn called, supposedly painted in the early 1920s, contained a pigment invented only in 1957. Police suspected that Beltracchi and Schulte-Kellinghaus had been involved in selling those fraudulent works.
