Back on October 18, 2013 we posted an article about foreign service officer and later personal secretary for the wife of the ex-president of the Philippines, Vilma Bautista, who had been indited on charges of conspiracy, tax fraud and offering a false instrument for filing for attempting to illegally sell artwork. The former presidential family looted between $5 billion and $10 billion from the country’s treasury. One of the works “stolen” and sold by Bautista is Monet’s “Japanese Footbridge Over the Water-Lily Pond at Giverny” for $32 million.
Yesterday (Monday, January 13, 2014) Bautista was sentenced to six years in state prison in New York for the charges. Also, she must pay $3.5 million in income taxes she owes to New York.