article_snippet: Investigators were particularly interested in how Claude Gueant could have sold two paintings by an obscure Flemish Baroque master for the record price of Euro 500,000 (£423,000).
article_snippet: Claude Gueant insists that the cash payment was a good price for Andries van Eertvelt 17th Century paintings of boats in a storm.
article_snippet: Claude Gueant said: 'I made the deal under personal circumstances, but I'm not an art investor' saying Claude Gueant sold the deal in 2008 to an unidentified Malaysian lawyer.
article_snippet: But art experts say two paintings were not worth anything like that amount, and there are suspicions that the cash in fact came from Gaddafi.