A father and his daughter from New Jersey made and sold more than 200 fake paintings of great masters. They took up nearly 2 million euros before being arrested. More than 200 fake paintings passed in five years on the American market Between 2020 and 2025, 50-year-old Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karolina Bankowska, 26, staged a major artistic fraud. The duo ordered counterfeits to an artist based in Poland. He then sold them to American ga…
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A father and his daughter from New Jersey made and sold more than 200 fake paintings of great masters. They took up nearly 2 million euros before being arrested. More than 200 fake paintings passed in five years on the American market Between 2020 and 2025, 50-year-old Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karolina Bankowska, 26, staged a major artistic fraud. The duo ordered counterfeits to an artist based in Poland. He then sold them to American ga…