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Dude bought a Pissaco Painting and isn't allow to take it out of spain and now has to serve 3 yrs in prison and has to pay 101 million dollar fine. He bought the painting in the 70s and Spain just up and declared it a national treasure and tells him it must stay in the county forever now. What kind of Bullshit is that. He owns it and should be able to do whatever he wants with. He should have BURNED the second they declared it a national treasure to tell them to fuck off.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/spanish-billionaire-tried-smuggle-picasso-220001548.html
Botín first purchased Head of a Young Woman, which is valued at $27.4 million, in 1977 in London. In 2015, the painting—which the Spanish Ministry of Culture had declared a national treasure, thus banning it from being exported—was discovered aboard the Botín’s yacht in Corsica, France. The octogenarian, who authorities say tried to sell the painting at Christie’s in 2012, claims he was simply transporting the artwork to Geneva, where it would be safely put in storage.
The harsher punishment comes after Judge Elena Raquel González Bayón was reportedly asked by the prosecution to review her original sentence. In her amended decision, the judge noted that “despite being fully aware of the administrative ban, the defendant transferred the painting to the schooner Adix in order to get [it] out of Spain.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/spanish-billionaire-tried-smuggle-picasso-220001548.html