Giacomo Medici Via Castelsecco 40 00058 Santa Marinella (RM) gmecl ici.art@gmail .com

Subject : Medici Archive

Dear Professor,

To the kind attention of Dr. C hristos Tsirogiannis

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It has been a long time now that you have been alerting the art world in an illicit and false manner. You should not be proud of this ! Spreading false news is a crime! This is a formal notice to ask you to stop this behaviour. The nex t time you info rm the public opinion of unfounded news I wi ll immediately ask my lawyer to take legal action against you to seek compensation fo r what you have stated. I ask that yo u accept and respect the rulings of the j udges, j ust as I have and am. The thousands of photos that were seized in Geneva in 1995 made up attadunent "A" of the counts of ind ictment, subsequently known as the "Medici Archive". Now, in three courts of judgment, j udges have ruled that only for a sma ll part of these photos does any guilt ex ist, while all the rest of the a rchive received a judgmcnt of acquittal with the fo rmula, " because the fact docs not exist" . I wish to underli ne the fact that the j udgment of the court of Rome, issued by Dr. Guglielmo Muntoni on 13 December 2004, was one of acquittal for a lmost all the photos. An appeal was made against this j udgment of acquittal by Public Prosecutor Dr. Giorgio Paolo Ferri, who intensely sought my conviction before the Court of Appeal. Well now, even the Court of Appeal confirmed the judgment of acquittal that had been issued by the Court of Rome. Accordingly, fo llowing my request, on 6 June 201 1 (Attachment 1) the Court of Appeal of Rome, chaired by Judge Dr. Luca, ordered the return of a ll the photos of the Medici archive fo r which a j udgment of acqui ttal had been issued. The Carabinieri of the Artistic H eritage of Rome were appointed to oversee the archive's release from se izure. Marshal Salvatore Morando was responsible for the report of the release from seizure on 27 June 201 1 (Attachment 2) . I have set out the above to make it clear that no one has the right to use the photos of my archi ve without my permission, especiall y when the purpose of their use is to make believe that the objects depicted in them are of an illicit provenance! This is fa lse! The judgment, by three different courts, and which is final, has established exactly the opposite. As further confirmation of th is, and aga in confirming the Order of the Court of Appeal, the Carabinieri of the Artistic Heritage of Rome have cancelled the photos of the Medici Archi ve fo r which aj udgment of acquittal was issued (Attachment 3) from their database.

What else am I to add? This, in short, is the truth! I have respected and paid for the judgments of conviction aga inst me. I. likewise ask those who continue to discredit me to respect my judgments of acquittal.

Yours sincerely,

Roma Ii 8 ottobre 20 18