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‘Lost’ Picasso spotted in Imelda Marcos’s home after son’s election win | Philippines | The Guardian

…  The Picasso was supposed to have been seized by the government in 2014, but a former commissioner on good government, Andres Bautista, told the Rappler news site co-founded by the Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa that he believed the item was a fake.

“Personally I know that what we seized was a fake. It was a tarpaulin so it’s still with them,” he told the site.

The Marcos family continues to face dozens of court cases over their plundered wealth. Imelda is appealing against a 2018 criminal conviction on seven corruption charges.

Marcos Jr’s spokesperson, Vic Rodriguez, did not respond when asked during a press conference to clarify whether the artwork on display in the Marcos home was genuine.