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Sabine Coll Boghici, a 48-year-old Brazilian woman, said Wednesday that her Genevieve Boghici, wife of her mother, the late art collector Jean was arrested on suspicion of defrauding Bogichi. Sabine has been accused of stealing her mother's artwork using physics she believes are cursed.
This scam began in her 2020 when Mrs. Bogici was approached by a supposed psychic with predictions of her daughter's imminent death. started.
The victim then used personal information provided by her daughter to trick her distraught mother into remittances for her "spiritual healing," police said. Say, taken by a few more psychics.
In the months that followed,police claimed that the suspect physically threatened her Mrs. Boghici and kept her daughter locked in her home for months. is doing.
Rio de Janeiro police officer Gilberto Ribeiro reported that Sabine and an accomplice under the guise of a psychic "began to take the work out of [the mother's] house and ask if there was anything in the painting. They claimed to be under a negative curse."
Police say the scam has been going on for years, with alleged psychics defrauding the work of Brazil's most iconic painter.
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Mrs. Bogici turned to the police after being abused by her daughter and her accomplice for almost a year. Did.
Police say 16 of her paintings were stolen, including works by notable Brazilian artists such as Cicero Diaz, Rubens Herz Gerchmann, and Alberto Herr Guignard.
Iconic modernist painter Tarsilado Her 3 pieces of Her Amaral, Oh Her Sono, Solpoente and Pont Neuf were also stolen, and police said that in total he was valued at R$700 million (£112.57 million). ) was evaluated as worthwhile.
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Amaral's sol pointe was recovered Wednesday when Rio de Janeiro police raided one of the psychic's homes. It was one of 11 paintings.
Authorities also recovered three of her paintings in São Paulo. Two were sold to a museum in Buenos Aires, but have yet to be recovered.
Police said the seven were suspected of involvement in years of crime, on charges of embezzlement, robbery, extortion, wrongful imprisonment, and a criminal coalition.
