ROME, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Twelve people have been arrested for allegedly selling on the Internet hundreds of counterfeit works of art allegedly by modern masters, Italian police said.
The forgeries, which sold for an estimated $9 million, were attributed to Matisse, Magritte, Prampolini, Burri, Fontana, de Chirico, Guttuso, Sironi, Rotella, Capogrossi, Gentilini and Boccioni, ANSA reported.
"Buyers thought they were really making a bargain," a member of the Carabinieri's Cultural Heritage Protection Unit told the Italian news agency. UPI
