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Sotheby's and Christie's: a Crime among Gentlemen

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A documentary special that investigates events that led to the biggest art scandal in history, in which world-famous auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, conspired to rig prices. For his part in the affair, former Sotheby's chief Alfred Taubman was subsequently jailed and fined $7.5 million in America. However, this programme asks whether full justice has been done.

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