The work, known as Salmon Life Giving Spawn, was recently hanging at the Ontario Legislature building and had characteristics investigators say link it to one of the Norval Morrisseau art fraud rings.
Eight people face total of 40 charges, after years of police investigations into forgery of artwork by renowned indigenous Canadian artist, Norval Morrisseau
The lead investigators in a bust of forgery rings alleged to have faked thousands of Norval Morrisseau works say the level of fraud could top $100 million.