ACCUSED MEMBER OF KNOEDLER FORGERY RING CAN BE EXTRADITED TO US, SPANISH COURT RULES
Jesús Ángel Bergantiños Díaz, who allegedly commissioned fake paintings and then passed them to Glafira Rosales so they could be sold through Knoedler Gallery, can be extradited to the United States, according to M.H. Miller in Artnews.
Spain’s national court has ruled that Diaz can now face charges in New York that include “wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and money laundering.” In April 2014, Diaz faced arrest at a hotel in Seville, together with his brother.
As artforum.com reported here, the former director of Knoedler & Co., Ann Freedman, recently reached a settlement with collectors Domenico and Eleanore De Sole, who accused her in a federal court of fraudulently selling them a fake Mark Rothko painting for $8.3 million. The settlement put an abrupt end to the first of the forgery accusations faced by Knoedler to actually go to trial.
