Last year, [2016] the US state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral – but all was not as it seemed. By Yepoka Yeebo. (Nov. 28, 2017)

Shaun Greenhalgh has turned his hand to everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Lowry. He’s been to prison, but has never revealed the whole picture. Until now. By Simon Parkin.

On Wall Street, Andrew J. Hall is known, even feted, as an aggressive trader with nerves of steel, capable of earning a $100 million bonus in a single year. His particular skill: spotting opportunities in high-stakes oil markets. When he turned to constructing a personal art collection… By Graham Bowley.

A Leonardo da Vinci drawing believed to be worth £100 million is actually a picture of “Sally from the Co-op” in Bolton, one of Britain’s most notorious art forgers has claimed. The “La Bella Principessa” purports to be portrait of a young woman possibly from the court of Ludovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, in the 1490s. But Shaun Greenhalgh claims he drew the picture in 1978 based on a “bossy” shop assistant he worked with his local Co-op store in the north west town.