The two men found guilty of Australia’s biggest art fraud case involving fake Brett Whiteley paintings which sold for for $3.6 million have been jailed, but a Supreme Court judge granted the pair a stay on their sentences after admitting he was troubled by a jury’s verdict.
Justice Michael Croucher on Friday said there was a “powerful” case for the jury’s verdict against art conservator Mohamed Aman Siddique and art dealer Peter Gant to be considered unsafe, and allowed both men to walk free from court until they faced the Court of Appeal.
Justice Croucher earlier imposed a five-year prison term on Gant, 61,…
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