Madrid, 16 February (EFE) .- The High Court today agreed to surrender for extradition of Spanish Jesús Ángel Bergantiños, claimed by the United States, to try him for fraud and money laundering in New York for selling forged paintings worth more 33 million dollars from the 90s and July 2009.
Although the Spanish prosecution opposed arguing that delivery could be tried in Spain at the request of the US, the Spanish National court understands that the offenses were committed in that country with other people and therefore Bergantiños could not be tried “separate and isolated from the other way.”
also because the test, ranging from that produced the made in the 90 to 2009, “is available to the claimant country” and the crimes for which delivery were committed in the United States is called for, explains the Spanish court in the order for extradition against appealable in supplication.
However, the Spanish Government has the final say on delivery, which consider it inappropriate for any reason can choose to reject it.
US officials accuse Bergantiños of conspiracy to commit fraud electronic transmission, fraud electronic funds transfer, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering.
According to the statement of facts, the defendants Jesus Angel Bergantiños, his brother Jose Carlos, his dealer the woman Mexican Glafira Rosales and Pei Qian Shei, hatched a plan “to create and sell paintings that they said had been painted by painters of abstract expressionism” as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning.
However, the tables they were painted by Bergantiños -of dual US and Spanish- his brother, Qian and Rosales, who managed to deceive “buyers into paying tens of millions of dollars, knowing that they had no value.”
thus, they came to pocket more than $ 33 million and to conceal the illicit origin of these gains “worked together to launder the proceeds” transferring to foreign and domestic accounts.
the woman accused it was tried in 2013 in a New York court for the same case. EFE
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