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Title : Wine Dealer Sentenced to 10 Years for Defrauding Clients
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Source : New York Times
Year : 2018
Link : https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/nyregion/wine-dealer-sentenced-to-10-years-for-defrauding-clients.html
Country : United States of America
Commodity: SE-Fish and fish products
Abstract: A well-known wine dealer was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison for defrauding wealthy clients out of millions of dollars by selling bottles of purportedly rare wines that were actually old bottles of wine mixed together. The dealer, Rudy Kurniawan, 37, had become a renowned figure in the rare wine scene, spending and making millions of dollars on wine sales every year.