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£4.3bn

How much the Treasury has written off out of the £5.8bn that was falsely claimed by fraudsters from the government’s emergency pandemic schemes, such as furlough and Eat Out to Help Out.

$3.2bn

The valuation for Skims, reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s clothing line, after it raised $240m in its latest funding round. The bodysuits and leggings fashion label set up in 2019 has attracted around $400m in funding to date.

€300m

The value of Italy’s crown jewels, which the state took away from the then-reigning House of Savoy when the monarchy was abolished in 1946. Prince Emanuele Filiberto, descendant of the last king, Umberto II, has demanded the gems be returned to his family.

A$20m

How much (£10.6m) the Australian government has paid Harold Thomas, the artist behind what is widely recognised as the Aboriginal flag, for the copyright following a row over who owned it. Thomas created the yellow, black and red design in 1971.

$26m

The estimated value of the collection of digital art created by Victor Langlois, a 19-year-old artist based in Seattle, Washington, better known online by his pseudonym “FEWOCiOUS”, according to cryptoart, a website that tracks the value of NFT (non-fungible token) artworks. Langlois sees the rise of digital artwork as a “new Renaissanc­e”.

$4m

How much rapper Cardi B (pictured) has been awarded in damages in a libel case against celebrity gossip blogger Tasha K. Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almánzar, launched the suit in 2019 after Latasha Kebe (Tasha K) falsely claimed to her one million subscriber­s on her YouTube channel that the singer was a prostitute and used cocaine.

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