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An octogenarian art dealer is suspected of being the source of allegedly smuggled antiquities sold to the Met and the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Serop Simonian was arrested in his hometown of Hamburg and transferred to France
Both Martinez and curator Jean-Francois Charnier, who is also ensnared in the allegations, will appeal the decision.
Jean-Claude Gandur lodged his complaint after a journalist informed him the portrait had the same provenance as other suspect artifacts.
French investigators said the agency showed signs of “real professional negligence,” “transgression of deontological rules,” and “failures."