- Economy: Jaime Botín denies smuggling and clings to his 'Picasso': "I wanted him to be in a safe place"
The prosecutor has maintained this Friday at the trial his request for four years in prison and a fine of one hundred million euros for former Bankinter President Jaime Botín for the crime of smuggling a Picasso declared inexportable by the Government and that he was seized in 2015 on his ship in Corsica (France).
In his final conclusions in the Criminal Court number 27 of Madrid, the prosecutor has also requested that the work intervened, Head of a young woman , which is deposited in the Reina Sofía National Museum , be attached to the Spanish public domain in application of the law of historical heritage.
The State attorney has joined the accusation for a crime of smuggling cultural property while the defense lawyer has claimed the acquittal of the accused.
Botín tried to sell the painting Head of a Young Woman , which Pablo Picasso painted in 1906, at an auction in London in 2013 but could not because in 2012 it was declared inexportable by the Ministry of Culture, and in July 2015 it was intervened in a customs control on the sailboat of the defendant in the port of Calvi of Corsica when he was prepared to be taken by plane to Switzerland.
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