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Serebrennikov called the accusation absurd
Update . Later, the lawyer clarified that Serebrennikov was taken to TDF No. 1 at 38 Petrovka.
The artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, accused of fraud, was taken to the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center after being interrogated by the Investigative Committee. This was announced by lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov, reports "Rain".
The lawyer recalled that on August 23, the director will choose a measure of restraint. “I don’t know which one yet,” Kharitonov noted.
“Kirill Semenovich [Serebrennikov] considers this accusation absolutely absurd, the Platform was a project that took place, the money allocated by the state was spent on this project,” the lawyer said.
- Kirill Serebrennikov was detained on the night of August 22 in St. Petersburg, after which he was brought to Moscow and taken to the Investigative Committee. There he was charged with fraud on an especially large scale, under this article the director faces up to 10 years in prison.
- According to the investigation, Serebrennikov organized "the theft of at least 68 million rubles allocated in 2011-2014 for the implementation of the Platform project." The director himself refused to admit guilt.
- Earlier, three more former employees of the Seventh Studio, founded by the director, were accused in the case: former general producer Alexei Malobrodsky, former director Yuri Itin and former chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva. Serebrennikov was a witness in the case.
- As Interfax reported, the artistic director of the Gogol Center was transferred to the status of the accused on the basis of the testimony of Maslyaeva and another employee of the accounting department, Tatyana Zhirikova, as well as "other persons."
- The Bell reported that only Serebrennikov was initially interested in the investigation.