Angela Gulpenkian pleaded guilty to theft in the UK

FThe Criminal Court in Southwark, south London, told the Lusa News Agency today that a conviction had been filed at a trial last Friday and that the sentence was scheduled for July 28.

Angela Gulpenkian, 38, of Germany, is responsible for the theft of 1, 1,061,484 (approximately 24 1.24 million at current exchange rates) from Art Incorporated Ltd, owned by consultant Matthew Dickolt, and கிள 50,000 (ஆயிரம் 58,000).

The two may have paid Angela Gulpenkian, who married Duarte Gulpenkian, the son – in – law of the Armenian businessman Caloste Gulpenkian, to mediate the purchase of a sculpture by Japanese artist Yoyoi Kusama entitled “Yellow Pumpkin.”

In December, the Supreme Court of Portugal (SDJ) approved that Angela Gulpenkian should have been released in November, before being extradited to England from Interpol.

At the time, Angela Gulpenkian’s lawyer told the Lusa News Agency that she had received a Supreme Court ruling on a request for a ‘habeas corpus’ (request for immediate release), in which Angela Gulpenkian’s High Court recognizes that maintaining the prison was illegal from November 24, when she was deemed acquitted. There was an arrest warrant (EAW) that expired on that date.

On June 17 last year, Lusa announced that Angela Gulpenkian, an art broker and collector, had been detained by the Judicial Police (PJ) in accordance with an MDE issued by the United Kingdom, and was remanded in custody until further notice, according to the Lisbon Court of Appeal (DRL). have to do.

At the time, PJ noted that it was a 38-year-old woman, “a dealer in art, suspected of committing a crime worth thousands of euros”, a resident of the Lisbon region.

In February 2020, a British court issued an arrest warrant against an art broker and collector accused of fraudulently misusing the name of the Coloste Gulpenkian Foundation.

Southwark State Court has issued a warrant for Angela Gulpenkian for missing a court hearing.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court has already issued another memorandum of understanding on June 26, 2019 against Angela Gulpenkian for allegedly embezzling money to buy a sculpture by Yoyoi Kusama.

The European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is a simple cross-border judicial procedure for surrender for the purpose of prosecuting or enforcing a sentence or a security measure that deprives you of liberty.

Guarantees issued by EU judicial authorities are valid across the Union and have been in effect since January 1, 2004, with the aim of changing the long-standing extradition procedures between EU countries.

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