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The leader of the Norval Morrisseau art fraud ring has been given five years in prison, a sentence seen as a rarity in Canada despite the seriousness of the crime. Many art thieves, in fact, never land behind bars due to limited art crime-specific investigative resources for police forces here.
One of eight people charged in what Ontario Provincial Police say is the largest art fraud investigation in Canadian history is expected to be sentenced Thursday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Thunder Bay, Ont.
Some art experts are cautioning that the spiking value of Maud Lewis paintings will make the Nova Scotia folk artist's work more attractive for fraudsters to replicate.