The Basmanny Court sent Sophia Apfelbaum under house arrest

Today, October 27, the Moscow Basmanny District Court granted the investigation, choosing a preventive measure against the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Sofia Apfelbaum in the form of house arrest until December 26th.

It is reported by "Medusa" . The court did not allow walks, clarifies the Mediazona .

On October 26, the Apfelbaum was detained after interrogation in the Investigative Committee (SK) in the case of the Seventh Studio, she was charged under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud committed by an organized group on an especially large scale”).

At the time when the “Seventh Studio” by Kirill Serebrennikov allocated budget funds for the theater project “Platform”, Sofya Apfelbaum headed the Department of State Support of Art and Folk Art at the Ministry of Culture. According to investigators, she participated in the tank of documents, as a result of which a contract was concluded with the “seventh studio” worth more than 214 million rubles, of which 68 million were stolen.

The UK argues that the Apfelbaum guilt is confirmed by the testimony of witnesses, confrontations of confrontation, the results of operational-search activities seized during the investigation with financial documents and other evidence.

Before today's meeting of the Basmanny Court, the lawyer of the Director of Ramt Irina Vorovinova told Bfm.ru that the Ministry of Culture and the Apfelbaum were not the initiators of the financing of the Serberennikov project: “There was a letter signed by [Dmitry] Medvedev - the president - on the allocation of money for this project. Then there was a decision of the government, and the Ministry of Culture fulfilled the will of the government. Sonya by proxy signed an investment agreement with Serebrennikov. ”

At the trial, the lawyer said that the Apfelbaum did not know anything about theft. Noting that her client does not pose a danger to the company, Porovinova asked the court to choose a preventive measure for her, not related to restriction of freedom, and let go of 1 million rubles.

The representative of the investigation opposed the release on bail. According to him, there is information proving that on May 25, 2017, Apfelbaum was going to discuss a certain financial documentation with the former general producer of the Seventh Studio Alexei Malobrodsky.

On May 23, they came to the Apfelbaum with a search in connection with the investigation of the “Seventh Studio” case and interrogated in the UK as a witness. On the same day, searches were held by Serebrennikov and the Gogol Center Theater.

In addition to the Apfelbaum, Serebrennikov and Malobrodsky in the case of the Seventh Studio, her former general director Yuri Iina and former chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva are held.

Malobrodsky is detained, Serebrennikov, Itin and Maslyaeva are under house arrest. None of the accused pleads guilty, except Maslyaeva, who concluded a deal with the investigation and testified to former colleagues. On October 12, the Basmanny Court extended the arrest for all defendants until January 19, 2018.