Dealer fined for art fraud
PA Wellington , A judge has fined a Foxton man $lOOO and sentenced him to 200 hours community service for what has been called the most serious art fraud in New Zealand.
Karl Feodor Sim, aged 62, an antique dealer and wine shop manager, has appeared for sentence in the District Court at Wellington before Judge J. D. Rabone on 20 counts of forgery, 18 of uttering, one of altering a document with intent to defraud, and one of causing a person to act on a document with intent to defraud. Sim had been found
guilty of the charges by a jury in the District Court at Lower Hutt. The charges related to paintings and sketches allegedly by Charles Goldie, Petrus van der Velden, and Rita Angus. The fines were one of $5OO on a count relating to' Goldie offences, $250 for the van der Velden collection fraud, and $250 on a count relating to the Angus collection. Judge Rabone said the prosecuting counsel, Mr R. B. Squire, had submitted that Sim’s was the most serious art fraud discovered in New Zealand.
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