He bought a painting at auction, asked for Sgarbi's trial. Debts that the art critic has with the Revenue Agency for a total of approximately 715 thousand euros.
The prosecutors accuse him of having acquired a painting in 2020 at auction by making his partner appear as the buyer and with money from a third person with the intention of protecting the work from possible attacks by the tax authorities. The Rome Prosecutor's Office has requested the indictment of the former undersecretary of Culture for fraudulent evasion of tax payments.