The court arrested the property of Itin and Serebrennikov

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow imposed a security arrest on the property of the artistic director of the Gogol-Center, director Kirill Serebrennikov and the former General Director of the Seventh Studio Yuri Itina.

According to Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the court to Juno Tsarev, the decision to impose the arrest on the property of Itin and Serebrennikov was made on October 11.

“The court issued decisions on the seizure of property of the accused Serebrennikov, namely, in the amount of more than 360,000 rubles, more than 60,000 euros and money in more than $ 4,000. He was also arrested by his apartment and a car, ”Tsareva said about the arrest of Serebrennikov's property ..

“In addition, the arrest of the property of the accused Itin was imposed, namely: more than $ 80,000 and 5,000 euros, as well as gold products,” the spokesman added.

Serbrennikov, Itin, the former general producer of the Seventh Studio Alexei Malobrodsky and her former chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva are accused of stole at least 68 million rubles of budget funds allocated to the Seventh Studio for the Platform theater project.

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 Moscow Basmanny Court extended the arrest for all defendants until January 19, 2018.

In the case of the Seventh Studio, the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Sofya Apfelbaum , which the court sent under house arrest, and in absentia at the end of September, the executive producer of the play “Sleep on a Summer in the Summer of the Midswood”, Ekaterina Voronova , also hosts.

In support of Serebrennikov and other defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio, many cultural figures in Russia and abroad, including the European Film Academy , the European Cultural Parliament , the Operational Conference of Germany , the Association of Theatrical Critics , Gidon Kremer , Ivan Zarypaev , Chulpan Khamatova , Ian McCelllen , Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Kalyagin , Alexander Kalyagin, Alexander Kalyagin . Anatoly Vasiliev , actors, directors, writers, playwrights and heads of theaters from different countries, 1300 signatures gathered an open letter from three hundred young Russian cultural figures who demanded to free the defendants in the Seventh Studio, more than a hundred people entered the Cyril Serebrennikov support committee created in France.