检方称，萧元通过拍卖行出售了125幅画作，总共价值3400万元人民币。他手里还有18幅从图书馆盗走的画，总价值为7700万元人民币。他在庭审中表示，拍卖行认为后面这些画是假的，拒绝出售。

He was discovered after a Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts graduate noticed a work at auctionin Hong Kong had the school's seal.

广州美术学院的一名毕业生注意到在香港拍卖的一幅画作上有学校的印章，萧元的行为因此才被发现。

Mr. Xiao told the court he stopped swapping his fakes for the school's real works in 2006, afterthe collection was moved to the school's new campus, restricting his access. Upon seeingsome of the collection later, he noted that some of his forgeries had been replaced with evencruder fakes.

萧元在法庭上表示，馆藏字画在2006年转移到了学校的新校区，他的出入受限，因此停止了掉包行为。后来看到一些画作时，他注意到，自己的一些临摹作品又被更粗糙的赝品掉包了。

"I realized that paintings I had substituted 10 years ago had been substituted again," he said. "Icould tell right away they weren't mine. The quality was too low. I pointed this out to people,but they didn't pay any attention."

"我发现自己10年前已经临摹掉包的画作被再次掉包，"他说。"因为画技拙劣，我一眼就看出来，我曾向办案人员指出，但没有得到重视。"

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