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The artistic director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov was detained on suspicion of organizing theft of at least 68 million rubles allocated in 2011-2014 for the implementation of the Platform project. This was reported by the press service of the TFR.

"His actions are qualified by the investigation under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale)." "The report said.

Serebrennikov was detained in St. Petersburg, where he was on the set of the film, and delivered to the building of the Investigative Committee in Moscow.

At about 16:30, the TFR press service said that Serebrennikov was officially charged. "During the interrogation, he did not plead guilty as the accused," the report said .

The Court of Election of Serebrennikov will take place on Wednesday measures, the source of Interfax, familiar with the situation, said . According to him, the investigation will petition for the director of the director in jail or under house arrest.

Director Pavel Lungin called not to place Serebrennikov in custody. “Of course, there is no need for an arrest. Cyril doesn’t leave anywhere, he works. He goes to all interrogations, writes explanations. It seems to me that this is excessive cruelty, some vengeful cruelty,” said Lungin. “And I hope that all artists and, in general, people who understand that there is no need to keep the director in prison, that he is not running away, that this is not a dangerous criminal, that this is not a dangerous criminal The criminal, smuggling.

"The arrest of the director is an obviously excessive measure before the trial, especially after the president’s words about the excessive arrests of entrepreneurs," the head of the Center for Strategic Development Alexei Kudrin wrote on Twitter

"Serebrennik could choose a measure of restraint, which is not related to deprivation of freedom, for example, a recognizance not to leave," said Leonid Pechatnikov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Affairs.

Serebrennikov was a witness in the case of the theft in the “Seventh Studio” founded by him. On May 23, searches went to various addresses, including the Gogol Center and the director himself . Later on the same day, the directorwas interrogated in the metropolitan head of the TFR .

On August 9, at the appeal, as the defendants of the case in the Moscow City Court, it became known that the former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio Nina Maslyaeva and her former subordinate Zhirikova testified against Serebrennikov and the ex-producer of the studio Alexei Malobrodsky. As follows from the testimony of Maslyaeva, they allegedly created a company for the theft of a state subsidy of 200 million rubles to support contemporary art. According to the ex-header, she helped to cash out funds, and Serebrennikov and Malobrodsky disposed of this money "at their discretion."

In addition, it became known that on July 25, the TFR brought the defendants the case of the Seventh Studio the new accusations. This happened after the case was transferred from the Moscow Directorate of the TFR to the central apparatus of the department. According to the lawyer of Lesser Ksenia Karpinskaya, the former employees of the company are charged with the fact that they "worked in the" seventh studio "and spent state money." At the same time, the charges do not specify how exactly the funds were spent. The accused is now charged with 68 million rubles of damage.

On August 11, a source surrounded by the director said that the TFR appointed an examination of the authenticity of the passport of Serebrennikov. The document was seized from him during searches at the end of May. “These investigative actions are only an occasion to not let the director go abroad,” the source noted.