Kirill Serebrennikov was sent under house arrest

Today, August 23, the Moscow Basmanny District Court chose a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until 19 OKTbyyr in relation to the artistic director of the Gogol-Center Theater, director Kirill Serebrennikov, accused of fraud for an especially large scale.

Thus, the court granted the investigation, reports RBC . The defense asked to let the director go on bail in the amount of damage to him.

According to the conditions of house arrest, without the written permission of the investigator Serebrennikov, he will be able to communicate only with parents and lawyer, and use the phone and the Internet - only to call emergency services. The director may allow you to go to work in the theater, for this you will also need a written resolution of the investigating authority.

“I would like to be released, because the accusations that were brought to me seem incredible and impossible. - Serebrennikova quoted in court, journalist Katerina Gordeeva. - I am currently in the process of film production, I am making a film ( about Victor Tsoi - Ed. ). I have a performance at the Gogol Center on the issue. Since May, I have come on the first call of the investigator, to any question. I collaborated with the investigation, I answered all questions and told the truth, which is that the Platform project, of course, was, all people worked on it selflessly and honestly, I am proud of it. My work of the artistic director, consisting in the production of performances, was completed. We spent the money, but we spent it on productions, on performances. For the country, we have made a large and bright project for the country, which is known all over the world, which has become a launching pad for many young artists. I ask me to let me go, I'm making a movie. ”

Serebrennikov also said that “he did not give any testimony for other employees of the“ seventh studio ”, since I do not know anything about any abuses on their part,” Interfax reports.

The guarantors of Serebrennikov became 33 cultural figures, their list is given by Medusa : the general director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, general director of the Tretyakov Gallery of Zelfir Tregulov, President of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation Natalya Solzhenitsyna, head of the new literary review Irina Prokhorova, chairman of the theater figures, Alexander Kalyagin, writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, writer, writer, writer. Singer Philip Kirkorov, television journalists Andrei Malakhov, Ivan Urgant, Ksenia Sobchak, Nikolai Svanidze and Leonid Parfyonov, directors Avdotya Smirnova, Lev Dodin, Andrei Smirnov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Alexey Popogrebsky, Alexey German, Konstantin Raikin, Aleksey Mizgirev, actors Chulpan Khamatova, actors. Evgeny Mironov, Valery Garkalin, Semyon Slepakov, Sergey Svetlakov, Maxim Matveev, Victoria Isakova, Ksenia Rappoport, Danila Kozlovsky, Elizabeth Boyarskaya, Igor Vernik, Maxim Vitorgan and Konstantin Khabensky.

Hundreds of people who came to support Serebrennikov gathered at the Basmanny Court building, an appeal with a request to stop his criminal prosecution on the Change.org website collected almost 15 thousand signatures.

On May 23, Serebrennikov and Gogol Center were searches in the case of the theft of budget funds in the Seventh Studio created by him. In the case of the Seventh Studio, its former leadership employees - General Director Yuri Itin, general producer Alexei Malobrodsky and chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva are held. On August 10, in the Moscow City Court, her testimonies were read out, connecting Serebrennikov with the prediction.

On August 22, Serebrennikov was detained by employees of the Main Directorate for the Investigation of Particularly important cases of the Russian Investigative Committee (SK), he was charged under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud on an especially large scale"). According to investigators, the director organized theft of at least 68 million rubles allocated in 2011-2014 to implement the Platform project. Serebrennikov did not admit his guilt.

PS Lawyer Kirill Serebrennikov Dmitry Kharitonov said that the defense would appeal today's decision on home arrest in the three -day period allotted by law, Interfax reports.