The Sgarbi case has arrived in Parliament. The opposition in the Chamber of Deputies has demanded that the appointment of the undersecretary for culture be revoked, as part of a probe into the alleged illegal export of pieces of art. A hypothesis that is currently vehemently denied by the individual in question. The lawsuit involves the painting "The Capture of St. Peter" by Rutilio Manetti, which was stolen in 2013 from the castle of Buriasco in Piedmont and resurfaced in a show in Lucca in 2021 as a "unpublished" owned by Sgarbi. Sgarbi assures: "I have not received a notice of investigation. I wouldn't know how to be probed for a theft that I didn't commit. And for a crime committed 11 years ago under circumstances that investigators did not fully understand at the time. This news clearly demonstrates a violation of confidentiality of investigations, the sole crime for which there is evidence”. (Photo by Niccolò Caranti)
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