ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s junior culture minister Vittorio Sgarbi, an art critic and outspoken TV personality whose brief includes protecting the country’s cultural heritage, is under investigation over a 17th century painting in his possession that police said on Friday had been stolen. The painting disappeared from a castle near the northern Italian city of Turin in 2013, the art heritage squad of the Carabinieri police said in a statement. Prosecutors suspect it ended up in Sgarbi’s hands through fraudulent means and are investigating him over the alleged laundering of stolen goods, police a…