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As part of the investigation of criminal cases of major embezzlement in the Ministry of Culture, the head of the Directorate for the Construction, Reconstruction and Restoration of Boris Tsagaraev was detained. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Tsagaraev, a source close to the investigation told RIA Novosti. The petition for the imprisonment of the official received from the FSB. At the same time, the sources did not specify what exactly is charged with Tsagaraev.

On Saturday, the court also authorized the arrest until June 21 of the Baltstroya employee Vladimir Svanbek in the same case.

On March 15, the FSB officers detained the deputy minister of culture Grigory Pirumov in the case of the theft of state reasons for the restoration of cultural heritage monuments. The director of the Department of Property Management and Investment Policy of the Ministry of Culture Boris Mazo, Director of the subordinate Ministry of FSUE "Central Spanish" Oleg Ivanov, businessman Nikita Kolesnikov, General Director of the construction company Baltorstroy JSC Dmitry Sergeyev and its manager Alexander Kochenov, were also detained. The company was the largest contractor during the restoration of monuments.

Searches were carried out in almost all departments of the Ministry of Culture. For more than ten addresses, documentation related to construction and restoration work was withdrawn. In addition, the searches were held in the administration of Pskov, the "Baltra" and a number of other commercial structures.

The case was initiated by part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). According to the FSB investigator, the damage caused is estimated "at least 50 million rubles."

The Lefortovo court arrested the Firurants of the case until May 10 . The investigation presented all participants in the alleged criminal group of four episodes of fraud. "The case appears in the restoration of the Pskov Drama Theater, the Novodevichy Monastery, the monastery of John the Forerunner in Moscow and the Cosmonautics Museum in Kaluga," said Pirumova lawyer Fedor Kupriyanov.

On Wednesday, the court as a security measure in the framework of a preliminary investigation in the case arrested the property of Pirumov . It was reported that the deputy minister found bank accounts for tens of millions of rubles.