A person becoming the precise description of artwork seller Giuliano Ruffini, who’s the suspected mastermind of a significant Outdated Grasp forgery scandal, was arrested this morning in Northern Italy, in accordance with native media.
The Italian newspaper Stampa Reggiana reviews that the carabinieri within the city of Castelnovo Monti, not removed from Ruffini’s residence in Reggio Emilia had arrested as as-yet unnamed “77-year-old artwork critic” residing there, who is needed by French police for “fraud, cash laundering and forgery of artworks”, in accordance to an arrest warrant dated 14 July 2019. All this data corresponds to Ruffini and the warrant for his arrest.
“Having learnt from the newspapers that he was needed, the particular person involved, by means of his lawyer, knowledgeable the commander of the Castelnovo Monti that he needed to show himself in, and so he did, presenting himself within the late morning to the native carabinieri”, the report says.
Final week The Artwork Newspaper reported that the authorities have been in search of Ruffini and couldn’t discover him. His arrest warrant was delayed by the supreme court docket till at the top of a fiscal process in opposition to him. He had been cleared of fiscal fraud for the court docket. Ruffini has at all times maintained his innocence, claiming the work weren’t cast and that the attribution to Outdated Masters was the duty of consultants, curators and sellers who authenticated them.