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erto Bettega is not suspected of any wrongdoing, but is a mant in the case against a Bologna dealer
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he second time in a year, a former footballer for Juventus FC, one of eams in Turin, has fallen prey to an art crime. Roberto Bettega, who ed for Juventus between 1969 and 1983, says that he bought galls Le Nu au Bouquet , 1920, from Italo Spagna, the director of the gna-based Galleria Marescalchi, for 1.2m in 2003. This version of ts is disputed by Spagna, who says he did not sell the painting. pears that the Chagall may be a work stolen from the boat belonging e American businessman Edward Cantor, while it was anchored at na, just west of Genoa, in 2002. Cantors son reported the theft when scovered what he said was a poorly executed replica hanging in e of the original. The Italian authorities recently tracked down what believe is the original painting to Bettegas home in Turin: he has ned the painting to the Carabinieri and investigators believe he ht the work in good faith. The former footballer is now a claimant in orthcoming trial against Spagna. na is under investigation by Interpol, Turins Carabinieri and the ntly created Sezione Reati contro il Patrimonio Artistico (division for es against art heritage) working for Turins high court. He says he has emory of the Chagall work or of conducting any transaction with ega. Two other people are involved in the investigation, both anian nationalsone was working on Cantors yacht at the time of heft, while the other reportedly contacted the Muse Marc Chagall in and pretended to be related to Cantor in order to have the work uated.

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year, the Frenchman Jonathan Zebina, who played for Juventus from to 2010, found himself at the centre of an art scandal when a mo Rotella forgery, Wise , 1965, and six others, were linked to his er gallery, JZ Art (see The Art Newspaper, March 2012, p7 and ember 2012, p6). Like Bettega, Zebina was not suspected of any gdoing.
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