Roxanna Brown, the director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University in Thailand, who was charged with wire fraud, died early Wednesday.

According to The Seattle Times, the King County Medical Examiner's Office said that Brown died from infection and inflammation caused by a perforated gastric ulcer.

The 62-year-old expert on Asian art had some health problems that caused the postponement of her first appearance in court on Monday. She came back to court Tuesday but couldn’t stay long.

Maggie Ogden, an attorney and spokeswoman for the FDC, said that Brown was checked by medical personnel when she was brought by the authorities. She also said that center medical staff came to see her on Monday as she was suffering from flulike symptoms and was vomiting.

According to The Seattle Times, the National Institutes of Health online medical describes the most common symptoms of peritonitis, an infection and inflammation of the lining of the stomach and intestines, which include abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.

Officials at the detention center didn’t give any details about Brown’s death or about the medical treatment received by her during the custody.

At the time of her arrest, Brown was in Seattle at an Asian-art symposium. She was arrested and charged on a single count of wire fraud as she allegedly allowed her electronic signature to be used on fake appraisal forms of items donated to museums. The appraisals were inflated so that the collectors could claim fraudulent tax deductions.