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Retail prices index
The all items retail prices index for September 2006 is 200.1.
Retail prices index
The all items retail prices index for September 2006 is 200.1.
Art for all
Eight valuable paintings, stolen by a man who forged the will of an art collector, can now be officially passed to the nation, following a criminal and confiscation investigation by HMRC. The defendant was also ordered to repay £346,425 and is currently serving a three-year jail sentence.
The false accounting charges arose from an inheritance tax return submitted by the defendant in respect of the estate of the late Helen Guiterman who was an authority on the 19th century Scottish artist, David Roberts. The investigation by HMRC established assets to the value of approximately £500,000 had not been included on the return. The investigators also established that the defendant had forged Helen Guiterman's will, making himself the major beneficiary. Under her will, she had left her important collection of David Roberts' paintings to the National Art Collections Fund and most of the residue of her estate to charity.
This case was successfully prosecuted by the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office.
HMRC news release dated 17 October 2006
