They came to Cyril Serebrennikov with a search

Today, May 23, a search is being held in the house of the artistic director of Gogol-Center director Kirill Serebrennikov.

This was written on Facebook by journalist and human rights activist Olga Romanova.

Later, the Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Khazov-Cassia, citing Romanov, specified that a lawyer had gone to Serebrennikov.

The journalist also noted that the director’s mobile phone, in all likelihood, was seized. According to Mediazona , Serebrennikov is not responding to the phone calls.

PS at 11:50 MSK Interfax conveyed, quoting the “informed source” that the searches are carried out “within the framework of the criminal case initiated in 2015 under article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement) today at the place of residence and work of Serebrennikov and other theater workers”.

“According to preliminary data, we are talking about embezzlement of many millions of dollars, and the amount of damage to the episode related to the Gogol Center is estimated at $ 35 million,” the agency’s source said.

According to TASS , searches are carried out in the Gogol Center itself, and employees of the Investigative Committee participate in them.

PPS according to Interfax , Serebrennikov is involved as a witness. The director of the director Alexei Fedyarov noted that the director has no status of either the suspect or the accused.

In addition, with the search, they came to the director of RAMT Sofya Apfelbaum (she headed the Department of State Support for Art and Folk Art in the Ministry of Culture as the budget funds were allocated to Serebrennikov) and the Vincuration Center, where law enforcement officials seize documentation and explore computers.