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Followers of the varied fortunes of Mr Subhash Chandra Kapoor and his associates will know that he is in custody, reportedly as a result of the revenge of his former girlfriend. She is an art dealer in Singapore, who it is being said
gave investigators vital clues that convinced Interpol to issue a notice
for the New York dealer that was to lead to his arrest in Germany and his
extradition to India on July 14.
Paramaspry Punusamy, 56, owns a "contemporary art gallery" Jazmin Asian Arts 125 Tanglin Road, #B1-01, Singapore, which Google Street View shows is highly incongruously situated in a mock-half-timbered "Tudor Court" (!). She apparently has (had) a whole bunch of ancient sculptures which she says Kapoor gave her. He said he loaned them to her and wanted them back. When they split up, there was even a court case about them and Ms Punusamy hung on to them.
While the court decided that she had been given them by Kapoor, it apparently did not examine whether they were his to give in the first place. If many of the antiquities Kapoor was distributing from his Madison Avenue gallery are now under suspicion of being illegal exports and illicit imports, then presumably the same could apply to those held by Punusamy in her Jazmin Asian Arts gallery. Can she provide full documentation that they left the source country legitimately and were legally exported from a legal source in the country from which they reached her?
What else does former Kapoor-associate dealer Punusamy have in her gallery? Maybe as others who have bought or received antiquities from Mr Kapoor are falling under suspicion of involvement with dodgy goods, Ms Punusamy at the centre of the scandal should also be asked to provide documentation of licit origins of her holdings.
Is the proprietor of a "contemporary art gallery" in SE Asia able to shed light on the origins of the replicas/fakes that were packed together with authentic items to be shipped to New York?
Vignette: Hell hath no fury... the vengeful Paramaspry (Grace) Punusamy, 56, in New York in 2007 dressed for the occasion in a "traditional Indian sari".
Followers of the varied fortunes of Mr Subhash Chandra Kapoor and his associates will know that he is in custody, reportedly as a result of the revenge of his former girlfriend. She is an art dealer in Singapore, who it is being said
gave investigators vital clues that convinced Interpol to issue a notice
for the New York dealer that was to lead to his arrest in Germany and his
extradition to India on July 14.Paramaspry Punusamy, 56, owns a "contemporary art gallery" Jazmin Asian Arts 125 Tanglin Road, #B1-01, Singapore, which Google Street View shows is highly incongruously situated in a mock-half-timbered "Tudor Court" (!). She apparently has (had) a whole bunch of ancient sculptures which she says Kapoor gave her. He said he loaned them to her and wanted them back. When they split up, there was even a court case about them and Ms Punusamy hung on to them.
While the court decided that she had been given them by Kapoor, it apparently did not examine whether they were his to give in the first place. If many of the antiquities Kapoor was distributing from his Madison Avenue gallery are now under suspicion of being illegal exports and illicit imports, then presumably the same could apply to those held by Punusamy in her Jazmin Asian Arts gallery. Can she provide full documentation that they left the source country legitimately and were legally exported from a legal source in the country from which they reached her?
What else does former Kapoor-associate dealer Punusamy have in her gallery? Maybe as others who have bought or received antiquities from Mr Kapoor are falling under suspicion of involvement with dodgy goods, Ms Punusamy at the centre of the scandal should also be asked to provide documentation of licit origins of her holdings.
Is the proprietor of a "contemporary art gallery" in SE Asia able to shed light on the origins of the replicas/fakes that were packed together with authentic items to be shipped to New York?
Vignette: Hell hath no fury... the vengeful Paramaspry (Grace) Punusamy, 56, in New York in 2007 dressed for the occasion in a "traditional Indian sari".
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