The court sent RAMT director Sofya Apfelbaum under house arrest in a fraud case

The Basmanny Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request for house arrest for two months of the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Sofia Apfelbaum in the case of fraud (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) in the “Seventh Studio” of Kirill Serebrennikov, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The day before, Sofya Apfelbaum was detained ; Previously, she was involved in the case as a witness. charged the same day She was . Apfelbaum does not admit guilt.

Apfelbaum worked in the arts support department of the Ministry of Culture since 2008, and from 2012 until her dismissal in 2014, she headed the department.

Investigators believe that in 2011–2014, Apfelbaum, in collusion with Serebrennikov, on behalf of the ministry, signed subsidy agreements with Seventh Studio in the amount of over 214 million rubles, and also “provided subsequent approval of the reporting documentation received as a result of their execution, which contained inflated information.” on the number and cost of events carried out.” The total amount of theft by Serebrennikov and his alleged accomplices is estimated at at least 68 million rubles.

house arrest The artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, the general director of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itin, and accountant Nina Maslyaeva are already under in the Seventh Studio case. The ex-general director of the Gogol Center, Alexei Malobrodsky, is in a pre-trial detention center. Producer Ekaterina Voronova left Russia back in May ; she was arrested in absentia.