Constantin Dinescu, a Romanian billionaire with ties to a 2017 art heist in which $65 million worth of paintings were jacked from the Kunsthal art museum in Rotterdam, died earlier this month in what is believed to have been a poisoning. Now, according to the Daily Beast, investigators think the fatal dose may have been administered by a favorite Ukranian sex worker of Dinescu’s.
Dinescu, who was apparently known as “the baron of luxury” thanks to his high-rolling ways, was originally thought to have first fallen ill in his home on August 9. Now investigators have reportedly determined that he first showed signs of illness in his car near the sex club where he’d allegedly enjoyed the company of two sex workers that night, as well as some “virgin ponies,” apparently.
Per the Daily Beast:
He was first reported to have fallen ill inside his luxurious home on Romania’s Lake Snagov on Aug. 9. But a preliminary investigation determined that he had actually fallen ill in his car near the sex club and not his home, according to local media reports. He died in a Bucharest hospital on Aug. 15 after being taken there by private ambulance.
Investigators have laid the blame for what is believed to be poisoning on a Ukrainian call girl who was reportedly a favorite of Dinescu’s and whose whereabouts are currently unknown. The baron of luxury reportedly often hired two or more high-priced prostitutes at a time and frequented a number of sex clubs or held orgies at his home.
Dinescu was reportedly still under investigation for his suspected involvement in the Kunsthal art heist at the time of his death.
The Police Inspectorate of Constanta County in Romania told the Daily Beast Dinescu’s death is currently under investigation as “suspicious.”
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