Italian Official Accused of Laundering Stolen Painting Resigns
about 3 months ago (02/05/2024)
Italian Official Accused of Laundering Stolen Painting Resigns Skip to content Vittorio Sgarbi resigned from his post as Junior Culture Minister in Italy. (via Wikimedia Commons ) Italian Junior Culture Minister Vittorio Sgarbi resigned on Friday amid an official investigation into his alleged laundering of a stolen 17th-century painting. Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti’s “The Capture of Saint Peter” was reported missing in 2013 after a heist at a historic castle near Turin, but in a creative twist that has captured the public imagination, Sgarbi insists that the stolen painting was a fake and that his is the real deal.