Sgarbi is under investigation: theft of cultural property. A turning point on Manetti's work

Vittorio Sgarbi, according to the prosecutors, the stolen painting was indeed his. And a second case also emerges…

Vittorio Sgarbi And investigated for the theft of the painting Manetti “The capture of San Pietro” ended up in the crosshairs of a joint investigation by Il Fatto Quotidiano and Report. Now the prosecutor's office is also moving Maceratahowever, it was the prosecutors of Imperia who opened the file: the crime charged against the undersecretary is theft of cultural property. Sgarbi has his domicile in San Severino Marche and for this reason the documents were passed to the other prosecutor's office. But the file – reports Il Fatto – could end up in yet another prosecutor's office territorial jurisdiction. The hypothesis of the main crime could be broadened: counterfeiting, receiving stolen works of art and fraud. The object of the theft would be the painting The Capture of Saint Peter by Rutilio Manetti, stolen in 2013 from the castle of Buriasco in Piedmont. The other investigation instead it refers to a painting attributed to Valentin De Boulogne, also reproduced in the Correggio factory. Where they arrived yesterday carabinieri.

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The other allegations of crimes – continues Il Fatto – could concern the hypothesis that the undersecretary of the Meloni government modified the canvas to make it appear different from the one owned by Margherita Buzio, who reported the theft at the time. On this occasion the thieves they cut the canvas and scratched the frame. However, leaving a corner of the painting. In the work exhibited by Sgarbi in Lucca, more or less in the centre, a torch appears which is not there in the photos of the original. According to the undersecretary, however, the work was done found by chance at Villa Maidalchina, a noble residence which in 2000 was purchased by Rita Cavallini, Sgarbi's mother. Then there is the story of the painting's exhibition in Lucca: the hypothesis is that it was not the original that was shown but one high resolution playback.

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