Italian police arrested the archive of the outstanding figure of the Renaissance, Giorgio Vasari, exhibited for sale, according to ANSA. What the authorities explained the confiscation of papers, not reported.
Representative of the family of Count Festari, which sells the archive, a lawyer Kozulichi Guido (Guido Cosulich), at the same time said that the way the state tries to gain time to buy their own instruments, and at a lower price. According to counsel, the authorities, to raise money, it was time to Monday, March 29.
Sales Archives Vasari was accompanied by numerous scandals, the most prominent of which was that of purchasing securities by some Russian businessman to pay for the archive of 150 million euros. Immediately thereafter, followed by information that the mystery shopper was killed in a car accident.
Skeptics have argued that these reports - an invention Festari heirs, who want to force the government to join the bidding and purchase documents Vasari at exorbitant prices. Kozulichi, however, said that this is not true and that the company late Russians (supposedly named Ross Engineering) continued to struggle for paper Vasari. Because of this, police had to confiscate the archives, says the lawyer.
It was reported that because of the status of the national heritage Vasari paper will not be able to leave the city of Arezzo, even in the event that will be sold to other party. According to counsel families Festari, mysterious Russian buyer of this fact has not stopped.
In November 2009 the Italian state company Equitalia described the archive for the debts and put it up for auction. He was to be held on March 9, but the family managed to break Festari bidding. Heirs of the deceased Earl did not like the low estimate archive - 2,6 million euros.
Among the papers by Giorgio Vasari, according to some sources, there are 17 letters of Michelangelo, the correspondence of several pontiffs of the Catholic Church, as well as other famous Italian XVI century.
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