The former deputy minister of culture was found guilty of embezzlement and was released in the courtroom

Former Deputy Minister of Culture of Russia Grigory Pirumov was sentenced to a year and a half in a penal colony for embezzlement of budget funds. Such a verdict was passed by the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow. Pirumov was released in the courtroom due to the fact that he had already served his sentence in a pre-trial detention center.

The prosecutor's office asked the court to imprison Pirumov for five years.

All other four defendants were also released in the courtroom. Director of property management of the Ministry of Culture Boris Mazo, head of the Center for Restoration state enterprise (subordinate to the Ministry of Culture) Oleg Ivanov, project manager of CJSC Baltstroy Vladimir Svanbek and head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Directorate for Construction and Restoration" of the Ministry of Culture Boris Tsagaraev were released.

• Grigory Pirumov was detained in March 2016 on charges of embezzlement of budget funds allocated for restoration work. In particular, we are talking about the restoration of the Novodevichy Convent, the Izborsk Fortress, the Cosmonautics Museum in Kaluga, the St. John the Baptist Monastery in Moscow, and the Pskov Drama Theatre. Pirumov and other defendants in the case, according to the investigation, caused damage of 100 million rubles.
• During the preliminary investigation, the Ministry of Culture filed a claim for damages, but later it was withdrawn due to the fact that the defendants in the case paid off the damage.