Drawn verdict

Judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Vladimir Yuri Yevtukhov sentenced an employee of the Corruption Fund for Georgy Alburov by 240 hours of public work, the press secretary of the Kira Yarmysh Foundation reported .

At the same time, the judge excluded from the prosecution a clause on significant damage to the victim. Alburov was found guilty of theft committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. Subscription about the non -departure of him was removed.

In the debate, the prosecutor asked Alburov a punishment in the form of three years in prison. In turn, the defense demanded to justify Alburov due to the lack of a crime in his actions. According to lawyers, an artist, who was accused of Alburov’s theft, could not hang his drawings on a public fence at all, as this is an administrative offense.

In the last word, Alburov said that the case of the theft of the picture was initiated to intimidate the employees of the FBK and their supporters. He emphasized that he would not stop working in the FBK in spite of any persecution. The judge repeatedly interrupted Alburov during the last word.

In early June 2014, Alburov presented for his birthday to the founder of the FBC, the leader of the party of progress Alexei Navalny, the painting "Bad and good person". Its author is an amateur artist Sergey Sotov. He posts his work on the fence in the city center.

On June 20, a search was held in Navalny’s apartment, during which the picture was seized . On the same day, the Investigative Committee opened the case of the theft .

On September 18, Alburov was charged under paragraphs “A” and “B” of part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code (theft committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy and causing significant damage to the citizen).

12 investigators of the 2nd department for the investigation of especially important cases (about crimes against state power and in the economy) of the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee were engaged in the case, and the FSB carried out operational support.

In early November, the investigation was completed . However, after the New Year, it turned out that the Prosecutor General in December refused to approve the indictment , returning the case for the investigation.

On January 22, 2015, it became known about the end of the pre -investigation . A few days later, Alburov, studying the case file, found in them fragments of the correspondence of the chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin with the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, which were published on January 27 . “Just think about it,” the FBK employee commented on his publication: “The head of the Investigative Committee corresponds to the Prosecutor General about the“ theft ”of the poster from the fence in the city of Vladimir, the cost of materials for which, according to the author, was 100 rubles. Fiction.”

On January 30, Alburov and his lawyer Anna Polozova sent a petition to the investigator of the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Justice Alexei Alekseev. As noted in the document, the involvement of the accused in the "theft" of the picture has not been proven. In addition, the event and the composition of the "theft" are also absent.

On February 13, it became known thatthe indictment against Alburov was approved , and the Prosecutor General’s Office approved the transfer to the case, where the materials were sent for the first time, but the prosecutor's office in Vladimir.

“The Investigative Committee fell into its own trap: they sewed the case in the main investigative department of the UK - it means that the Prosecutor General’s Office should approve the indictment,” Navalny wrote then. “(However. - Ed.) The crooks from the UK, realizing that the Seagull would not sign anything to them: they formally sent the case to the investigation to Vladimir, where this pre -trace was completed, and the indictment was completed, and the indictment and the indictment The conclusion quickly stamped the local prosecutor bypassing the high Moscow authorities. "

The "theft" of Sotov’s paintings is charged with another accused - the analyst of the FBK Nikita Kulachenkov . Unlike Alburov, he disappeared from the investigation and put on the wanted list. Kulachenkov’s case is allocated in a separate proceedings.