14 March 2023 at 16:32 Artist sentenced to one year in prison for fraud in the Werner Jensen case John Hedemark has been sentenced in the Oslo district court to one year in prison for fraud in the Werner Jensen case. – Are you going to appeal? – 100 per cent sure, writes Hedemark in an SMS to news In addition, he has been sentenced to pay a total of NOK 653,443 in damages to 16 different victims in the case. The police have also succeeded in confiscating over 200 of the artist’s pictures. It was E24 that mentioned the verdict first. John Erik Hedemark tricked customers into buying paintings by “renowned artists”, without disclosing that he himself had painted the pictures. In August 2020, plainclothes police raided the gallery at Frogner and seized over 200 works of art. The paintings they were looking for were signed Werner Jensen, Knut Olesen and Erik Krohn.
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