The court arrested the chief accountant of the Seventh Studio on charges of embezzling 1.2 million rubles. She did not admit guilt

The former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio, Nina Maslyayeva, was charged with embezzlement of 1.2 million rubles. This, according to Interfax, was stated by the investigator at a court session, where the issue of choosing a measure of restraint for her was considered.

The guilt of Maslyayeva, according to the investigator, is confirmed by the testimony of witnesses, including Kirill Serebrennikov.

The investigator stated that Maslyayeva refused to admit her guilt, although she had previously done so. “After the arrest and interrogation, Maslyayeva admitted her guilt, said that she transferred the funds to the heads of the studio,” he said.

The fact that Maslyaeva is ready to plead guilty and make a deal with the investigation was previously said by her lawyer by appointment, Pavel Teplukhin. According to Interfax, she subsequently refused the services of this lawyer.

Update. The court arrested Nina Maslyayeva until July 19. “Maslyaeva is accused of a serious crime, the investigation has presented enough evidence that, being at large, Maslyaeva can hide and threaten witnesses,” Interfax quotes the judge.

• The investigation believes that the budget money allocated to the theater company of Kirill Serebrennikov "Seventh Studio" was stolen. The former chief accountant of the organization, Nina Maslyaeva, and the former director, Yuri Itin, are involved in the case.
• Itin is under house arrest, he does not admit his guilt. His lawyer, Yuri Lysenko , told Dozhd that the investigators forced his daughter to testify against Itin through pressure; what kind of testimony she gave, he did not say.
• As part of the case, searches were carried out at home, in particular, at the home of Kirill Serebrennikov and in the Gogol Center theater he heads; The director himself was interrogated in the UK as a witness. Many theater and cinema figures came out in defense of the director ; some, including directors Alexander Sokurov and Andrei Zvyagintsev , reproached Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky for not standing up for Serebrennikov.