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  • Stolen Mao Zedong calligraphy said to be worth billions torn in half by unwitting Hong Kong buyer

    10/07/2020 7:48:47 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 58 replies
    South China Morning Post ^ | 7 Oct 2020 | Clifford Lo and Fiona Sun
    A police insider said the buyer of the stolen artwork paid just HK$500 for the piece and believed it was a counterfeit Meanwhile, one of three burglars involved in the heist has been arrested along with a friend after a raid on a Yau Ma Tei residence A calligraphy scroll by Mao Zedong said to be worth HK$2.3 billion – part of a haul stolen last month from the Hong Kong flat of a renowned collector – was torn into two pieces after being resold for a few hundred dollars to a man who thought it was a counterfeit, the...