A Vienna court has heard how a man that even prosecutors described as the most famous stringed instrument expert in the world used his reputation to fiddle millions from his clients. Dietmar Machold married a woman 27-years younger, bought a romantic fairy-tale castle and filled his garage with a fleet of VIP cars to impress […]
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The world’s biggest ever musical-fraud court case against a leading expert on Stradivari who lived in a castle and had a fleet of luxury cars including two Rolls-Royces gets underway in Austria today (Wed). The reputation of 62-year-old German-born Dietmar Machold was so well regarded that he was allowed to value the instruments and give […]
Austrian prosecutors have filed charges against the world’s leading expert on Stradivari who lived in a castle and had a fleet of luxury cars including two Rolls-Royces with what is believed to be the world’s biggest ever musical fraud. The reputation of 62-year-old Dietmar Machold was so well regarded that he was allowed to value […]