Fraudster trying to sell fake ancient statues to Sotheby’s foiled over bogus invoices

A fraudster who tried to sell fake ancient statues to Sotheby’s was foiled when his bogus accompanying paperwork was found to be written with printing methods that were 25 years too modern, a court has heard. Andrew Crowley, 46, of Longwell Green, Gloucestershire Andrew Crowley, 46, asked the auctioneers to value three Cycladic figures and one Anatolian stargazer statuette that he had inherited from his grandfather, Southwark crown court in London was told on Friday. …