The five art traffickers accused by the Carabinieri of the ROS of Naples and the Neapolitan Prosecutor's Office of being involved, in various capacities, in the theft and receiving of a very precious copy of the Salvator Mundi (or Blessing Christ).
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The 1400 painting, attributed to the School of Leonardo da Vinci, was stolen from the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore di Napoli and found by the State Police on January 16, 2021, in a house in the neighborhood Ponticelli in Naples.
Naples, 26 years in prison in total
The judge sentenced him to 5 years and 4 months in prison Pasquale Ferrigno, Marco Fusaro and Tommaso Boscaglia, considered the perpetrators of the theft. For the two receivers Antonio Mauro and Domenico De Rosa the preliminary investigations judge instead ordered a sentence of 4 years and 4 months of imprisonment and 5 years and 6 months of imprisonment, respectively.
The Salvator Mundi was proposed to the female boss Maria Licciardi
The defendants were also sentenced to pay damages to the civil party to be settled in a separate court. According to what emerged from the Ros investigations, the purchase of the painting (and subsequently the identification of a buyer), was proposed to Maria Licciardi, head of the homonymous clan component theSecondigliano alliance, arrested by the Carabinieri of the Special Operations Group of Naples, in August 2021, at the Roman airport of Ciampino from which she was about to leave for Spain.
Article published on 10 February 2023 - 21:16
