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Brent Sikkema

Sikkema died on January 15, 2024, at the age of 75, after he was stabbed to death in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse. Two days later, 30-year-old Alejandro Triana Prevez was arrested as a suspect. Sikkema sustained eighteen stab wounds, most of them to the face and chest, and $3,000 was stolen from his home. On February 9, Alejandro Prevez told the police that Daniel Sikkema, the victim's ex-husband, promised him 200,000 dollars to kill Brent. According to the investigation, Daniel's motivation was the dispute over millions of dollars from Brent's estate, who was a partner in an important art gallery in New York. The police investigation said that Sikkema changed his will in May 2022, and his ex-husband, Daniel Garcia Carrera, the alleged mastermind behind the American's murder, was no longer the beneficiary of the inheritance.

On March 21, Daniel Sikkema, the victim's ex-husband, was arrested for passport fraud in New York, in the United States.

On July 1, the FBI, the United States Federal Police, has joined the investigation into the death of gallery owner Brent Sikkema in Rio de Janeiro and conducted the crime scene investigation in Jardim Botânico, alongside American prosecutors, Brazilian police officers from the Capital Homicide Division (DH) and members of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF).

On August 30, the defendants attended a hearing on the case at the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro. During the hearing, Daniel, who is speaking via video conference from the United States, asked for a Spanish translator to read the complaint.

On February 11, 2025, the American police reported that they arrested and indicted Daniel Sikkema, accused of hiring a hitman to murder gallery owner Brent Sikkema, his ex-husband, in Rio de Janeiro. Provided by Wikipedia