Arrests in the Seventh Studio case were extended until April 19

The judge of the Basmann District Court of Moscow Evgeny Nikolaev extended to the director Kirill Serebrennikov, the former artistic and the Seventh Studio art, for another three months - until April 19. This is reported by Interfax.

For the same time, the same court left in jail the former General Producer of the Seventh Studio Alexei Malobrodsky, and under house arrest - its ex -director Yuri Itin. What judges considered the SKR's petitions regarding these defendants are not specified.

According to RBC, actress Chulpan Khamatova and writer Victoria Tokareva came to the hearing about the extension of the arrest of Serebrennikov.

On January 12, the TFR completed the investigation in the main case of the Seventh Studio . Now the accused - in addition to Serebrennikov, Malnobrodsky and Itin, is the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater, formerly the head of the Ministry of Culture of the Ministry of Culture Sofya Apfelbaum, who was also placed under house arrest until April 19, begin to familiarize themselves with the case file. Then it will go to the prosecutor’s office, and then, if the supervisory authority approves the indictment, to the court.

The investigation was also completed for two cases, allocated from the main case of the Seventh Studio in separate proceedings. In one of the affairs, the former chief accountant of the organization Nina Maslyaeva is held. She is the only person who pleaded guilty and concluded a deal with the prosecutor’s office, within the framework of which she testified against former colleagues. She will be judged in a special order.

In the second case, the successor of Less Brodsky of the position of the General Producer of the Seventh Studio, Ekaterina Voronova, who disappeared abroad. Typically, the investigation of the affairs of people on the wanted list is suspended, but the investigation against Voronova was not suspended. As we might assume, the trial of it will also be in absentia; Part 5 of Article 247 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (the participation of the defendant) allows for an absentee process on charges, an incriminated emigrant.

All six accused were charged with part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale), which provides for up to 10 years of the colony. The volume of the case exceeds 100 volumes. According to the Investigative Department, in 2011-2014, the Ministry of Culture allocated to Serebrennikov over 214 million rubles for the implementation of the Platform project, the goals of which were the development and popularization of modern art. For the embodiment of the project and formed the Seventh Studio.

However, the TFR says, Serebrennikov gave other defendants an indication of overstating data on the quantity and cost of events. It is also claimed that the director instructed to ensure the conclusion of the Seventh Studio with firms and private entrepreneurs controlled by him, including one-day companies, and fictitious agreements for the implementation of the Platform project. The funds transferred under these agreements were allegedly cashed and distributed by Serebrennikov between the defendants.

Initially, the TFR assessed the amount of damage from thefts imputed by defendants at 68 million rubles. In the final version of the prosecution, this value, however, almost doubled - to 133 million. The rest of the plot of the case remained unchanged.