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MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) \u2014 Prosecutors in Argentina on Thursday charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official with trying to hide an 18th-century painting from authorities following revelations that it had been stolen<\/a> from a Jewish art dealer during World War II.<\/p>\n

The federal prosecutor in charge of the case announced the cover-up charge a day after Patricia Kadgien, one of the daughters of high-level Nazi officer Friedrich Kadgien, handed \u201cPortrait of a Lady\u201d by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi<\/a> to the Argentine judiciary eight decades after it was stolen.<\/p>\n

The fate of the work remains unclear, pending a decision in the case. The heir of Jacques Goudstikker \u2014 the Dutch-Jewish art collector who owned the painting before Nazis confiscated his world-famous inventory \u2014 has made a legal claim to get the painting back, her lawyers have said.<\/p>\n

Goudstikker died in a shipwreck in 1940 while fleeing the Netherlands as German troops advanced. He sold his collection, which included Rembrandts and Vermeers, under duress and far below market price. At least 1,100 stolen works from his gallery remain missing. <\/p>\n

The Argentine court has asked that the painting be displayed at the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires ahead of any further transfer abroad. The museum did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Patricia Kadgien, 59, and her husband, Juan Carlos Cortegoso, 62, have been under house arrest on suspicion of concealing the painting since police raided their home on Monday<\/a> for the second time in as many weeks without finding \u201cPortrait of a Lady.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kadgien, with disheveled dirty-blond hair and sunglasses on her head, wore a look that mixed concern and puzzlement as she listened to Prosecutor Carlos Mart\u00ednez in a jam-packed courtroom. Mart\u00ednez said that Kadgien\u2019s and her husband\u2019s efforts to hide the painting over several days following its sudden appearance in a real estate listing amounted to obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n

Cortegoso gazed straight ahead, his arms crossed and a stern expression on his face.<\/p>\n

After the hearing the couple was released from house arrest but barred from traveling abroad and required to notify the court whenever they leave their registered address.<\/p>\n

Photos of the painting hanging in Kadgien\u2019s living room in Mar del Plata surfaced last month for the first time in eight decades in an online real estate advertisement.<\/p>\n

Dutch journalists investigating Kadgien\u2019s past in Argentina \u2013 where he took refuge after the collapse of the Third Reich \u2013 spotted \u201cPortrait of a Lady\u201d hanging above a green velvet couch in the living room during a 3D tour of the house for sale.<\/p>\n

After recognizing it as the same portrait listed as missing in international archives of Nazi-looted art, the newspaper Algemeen Dagblad published an expos\u00e9 on Aug. 25<\/a> that grabbed headlines around the world.<\/p>\n

Alerted by international police agency Interpol, Argentine authorities raided the house and other properties belonging to Patricia Kadgien and her sister Alicia, seizing a rifle, a .32-caliber revolver and several paintings from the 19th-century that they suspect may have been similarly stolen during WWII. <\/p>\n

But police couldn\u2019t find \u201cPortrait of a Lady.\u201d They found scuff marks and a pastoral tapestry on Patricia Kadgien\u2019s living room wall where the portrait had been photographed. <\/p>\n

The real estate ad, first posted in February, was swiftly taken down. Prosecutors on Thursday said that security footage showed people removing the \u201cfor sale\u201d sign from Kadgien\u2019s front yard as media scrutiny intensified last week. <\/p>\n

In presenting the charges, Mart\u00ednez told the court that the couple was \u201caware that the artwork was being sought by the criminal justice system and international authorities\u201d but nevertheless went to lengths to hide it. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only after several police raids that they turned it in,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

With the defendants under house arrest on Monday, their lawyer, Carlos Murias, filed a petition with a civil court in Mar del Plata asking that Kadgien be allowed to auction the painting. <\/p>\n

The court rejected the request, arguing that it lacked jurisdiction given the painting\u2019s provenance. <\/p>\n

Prosecutor Mart\u00ednez told reporters on Thursday that his office was informed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Marei von Saher, the heir to art dealer Goudstikker, lodged a legal claim to \u201cPortrait of a Lady\u201d at the bureau\u2019s New York office. <\/p>\n

The FBI declined to comment. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

DeBre reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) \u2014 Prosecutors in Argentina on Thursday charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2841,42860,111154,111156,1613,356,111152,57,111153,4228,111155,1612,2936,50,111151,4217,8156,51507,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-200892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-buenos-aires","10":"tag-carlos-martinez","11":"tag-carlos-murias","12":"tag-central-america","13":"tag-courts","14":"tag-friedrich-kadgien","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-giuseppe-ghislandi","17":"tag-indictments","18":"tag-juan-carlos","19":"tag-latin-america","20":"tag-law-enforcement","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-patricia-kadgien","23":"tag-south-america","24":"tag-theft","25":"tag-u-s-federal-bureau-of-investigation","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115148823311567415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}