Esperanza Aguirre’s husband, Fernando Ramírez de Haro, has been sentenced to pay 853,732.83 euros to a brother for a Goya painting that he sold in 2012 and that belonged to the family. Fernando Ramírez de Haro, according to the ruling to which EL PAÍS has had access, (died 2010), to the businessman Juan Miguel Villar Mir for a total price of 5,800,000 euros (Sotheby’s, as intermediary of the private sale, kept 684,400 euros). The ruling, against which there is still an appeal, indicates that the husband of the former president of the Community of Madrid never returned to his brothers what they were entitled to for the sale of the painting and forces him to do so.
The painting, a portrait of Valentín Belvís de Moncada Pizarro, Count of Bornos like Aguirre’s husband, under pressure from creditors, Ramírez de Haro decided to put it up for sale through Sotheby’s. He agreed in writing with his brothers that he would give them his share when his financial situation improved.
brother of Fernando, . In his complaint, he accused his brother of deceiving him, concocting a false donation to facilitate the procedures. But the Madrid Court, even admitting that the donation had been “invented,” considered that the brothers “are exempt from criminal liability and subject only to civil liability.” Since it was an agreement between the brothers, the judges concluded that there was no crime. Then Íñigo Ramírez de Haro went to civil proceedings, and last September the trial was heard for sentencing.
“The commitment acquired by the defendant towards his brothers is legally valid and effective,” reads the ruling, dated November 14. “The absence of establishing a time period and the means of accreditation of financial availability does not prevent the debt from being enforceable as it is considered that a reasonable time has elapsed that does not allow further delays in compliance with what was agreed.”
