Furthermore, there was an incident that Rinpu SASAGAWA, the authority on the study of Japanese art history, was detained by the police as the accomplice of the fraud because he had written the recommendation notes for those art pieces.
また、美術史研究の権威だった笹川臨風が、作品の推薦文を書いたことで詐欺の共犯容疑として警察に勾留される騒ぎもあった。