Have disputes about “open marriage” and custody of custody of the murder of a wealthy art dealer?

The federal prosecutor claims that the alienated husband of a millionaire art dealer killed him because of a custody dispute in Brazil after the couple's partnership had reportedly started to acidify his proposal that they are pursuing an open marriage.

Brent Sikkema, 75, an art dealer of multimillionaire from New York, became known for the murder for the murder on January 14, 2024 in his house in Rio de Janeiro.

Daniel was initially charged by the Brazilian authorities who had applied for an interpol warning because he had left the country until then, according to a law submitted against the defendant in front of the Supreme Court of New York.

The indictment came after Triana Prevez confessed to the murder and claimed that he was commissioned to carry out the killing, the local newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and O Globo reported last year. Folha reported that Daniel had been appointed mastermind in this case.

Now the US authorities claim that Daniel had already started to plan the killing in 2023 and paid an attacker who was only identified by prosecutors as “CC-1”, $ 200,000 to commit the murder. He supposedly made the payments with a stolen identity.

Brent was stabbed in his face and chest 18 times, according to the humans checked by humans for illegal deaths.

Alejandro Triana Prevez.

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The couple's marriage seems to have departed a few years before the murder. The executor from Brent's estate claimed in 2019 that Daniel suggested the idea of ​​an “open marriage” that Brent did not want according to the complaint.

This led to a “deterioration” of the complaint, and in 2022 Daniel applied for a divorce.

From there it only went downhill.

In the complaint, Brent's executor Daniel, tried to have tried to steal 200,000 US dollars from his ex bank account and later disappear with the couple's child and “a large amount of luggage” for weeks; He supposedly claimed that they were moved to Cuba before finally buoyancy in New York because they needed money.

The executor even accused Daniel of celebrating Brent for a false property for the mass murder at John F. Kennedy in New York. Brent was arrested by the police in a holding cell for almost 24 hours until they had been released due to a lack of evidence.

Daniel's lawyer Nicholas Kaizer denied the allegations towards people.

Brent Sikkema.

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Daniel would later request full custody of the child and 6,000,000 US dollars from his millionaire ex, but Brent declined both claims according to the complaint.

Daniel was charged with a conspiracy.

Daniel has not guilty the accusation, says Kaizer to the people.

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