Anna Walsh’s husband fraud and theft | Info

Anna Walsh’s husband fraud and theft | Info
Anna Walsh’s husband fraud and theft | Info
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Now the details of the lives of Anna and Brian Walsh are emerging, and apparently, the husband of the missing Belgrade woman often had problems with the law.

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The husband of the missing Belgrade woman Ana Walsh stole Dali’s artworks from his father’s estate after his death after breaking into his house and destroying his will, court documents show. Brian Walsh, 46, was charged Monday with “misleading the police” investigating the disappearance of his wife, Anna, 39.

His family accused him of stealing nearly a million dollars from his father, Dr. Thomas Walsh. Thomas died in India at the age of 71, and his lawyer contacted his son to give him the news. Legal documents show that Walsh claimed the key to a $710,000 beach estate in Hull, Massachusetts even though his name was not on the will. They add that Walsh broke into his father’s home, stealing thousands of dollars worth of art and luxury itemsincluding paintings by Salvador Dali and Joan Miro – as well as a car.

The father of three then allegedly tried to sell his father’s house for $140,000 more than it was worth, after being wrongly appointed executor of the will. He was also accused in the paper of immediately trying to sell the other items online, advertising the sale in January – months after his father’s death. The discrepancies were only noticed after his cousin, who was named executor of Thomas’s willcontacted his uncle’s friend in 2019 and only then discovered that Thomas had passed away.

Walsh allegedly failed to inform other family members of his father’s deathand another family member took over the estate in July 2019. Walsh tried to challenge the appointment a month later, and was the probate court ordered him to submit a list of things he took from the property, which he refused. Meanwhile, Walsh has also previously been charged with fraud after selling two fake Andy Warhol paintings for $80,000 in 2016.

The fraudster is accused of being “misled” the court about his assets in the Warhol case. Court documents show he failed to notify police of the cars he was buying, including a Maserati driven by his wife, Anna. She announced that the car, worth $120,000, “the best Valentine’s Day gift of her life” and thanked Brian for making her childhood dreams come true.

In a letter to the judge overseeing the Warhol case, Anna said she was ‘grateful’ that the judge had allowed her husband to spend ‘the last eight months at home supporting his children and closest family members’. Walsh was then charged with ‘misleading the court’, and Ana was accused of ‘benefiting from fraud’ – pri to which her husband transferred $115,000 to her, which the court says is linked to his “victims” whom he defrauded. The court claims he also stole more than $100,000 from his dead father’s bank accounts. The ruling said he had ‘no legal right’ to any of the items he took, adding that it was to ‘maintain his lavish lifestyle’.

Court documents also show that Walsh used funds from the Warhol scam to go shopping at Prada with his wife while in France – after stealing $145,000 from the victim. The money was allegedly used to pay off credit card debt, which included travel and restaurant expenses. Walsh still hasn’t told the FBI what he did with the pictures of Shadow and The FBI was conducting a ‘year-long’ investigation into his ‘year-long criminal record’.

One of his victims, Ron Rivlin, owner of Revolver Gallery in Los Angeles, found Walsh selling two Andy Warhol paintings for $100,000 each in November 2016. Walsh told Rivlin he was selling the works at a big loss to pay for home renovations, and Rivlin agreed to buy both paintings for $80,000. They signedcontract, and when Rivlin discovered the pictures were inauthentic he tried to contact Walsh several times.

Legal documents tell of Warhol’s fraud: “The crime was insidious, complicated and planned. He traveled to multiple countries. He hired multiple artists to prepare fake images, with multiple lies. He included private galleries, auction houses and even eBay in his scheme. He manipulated and stole from people who trusted him, welcomed him into their homes and considered him a close friend. He made up stories and lies about the pictures to make the fake sales believable. Walsh proved so successful, in fact, that the FBI has still not found the artwork despite years of investigation and the defendant’s guilty plea.”

Anna was reported missing to police on January 4 by her employer in Washington and her husband – a stay-at-home father – three days after she was last seen on January 1. She worked for real estate giant Tishman Speyer, and the couple owned several properties together — their home in Cohasset and a $1.3 million house in Washington. They also owned another property in Massachusetts, worth $1.4 million – which they sold last year before it disappeared. She was set on fire a few days after she went missing, but police investigating the matter said it was not connected to her disappearance.

(MONDO)


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