LOS ANGELES, United States: A California man who swapped a library´s 17th century Chinese manuscript for a fake was jailed for a year on Wednesday after admitting to stealing a major artwork.
Jeffrey Ying used a number of aliases to get access to classic works, some over 600 years old, at the library of the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) the Department of Justice said.
Ying, 39, would check the works out and return days later with dummy manuscripts. He would frequently travel to China shortly thereafter, officials said.
