Today, August 23, Moscow's Basmanny Court will have to select a preventive measure for the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, who is accused of embezzling 68 million rubles. Budget funds for theatrical needs.
The Investigative Committee of Russia has already appealed to the court with a demand to send the director Kirill Serebrennikov under house arrest. This, according to RIA Novosti, said the press secretary of the Moscow Basmanny Court, Yunona Tsarev.
"The Basmanny Court received a petition to select a preventive measure in the form of house arrest against Serebrennikov Kirill Semenovich, accused of committing a crime,. 4 items. 159 CC. The court session is scheduled for 12:00, "Tsareva said..
The Basmanny Court has about a thousand people, including many journalists, both writers, radiators, and film crews. In the immediate vicinity of them several police outfits are on duty, who monitor the situation. In the backyard, a few police cars had already driven up in the morning, one of which brought Serebrennikov. He is already in the courtroom. In contrast to most other capital's judicial institutions, where the defendants are in a so-called aquarium, Basman director was placed in an "old, good cell".
To support the director came a lot of media people, including journalist Leonid Parfenov. "I came for Cyril's sake, for my own sake and because I do not sit at home because of this all" - shared his opinion about what is happening popular TV host.
A day earlier, the director said through his lawyers that he considered the charge brought against him far-fetched and completely denied any of his involvement in the embezzlement of budgetary millions. According to him, "all this is insanity and asks for pages of tabloid novels".
Also, the director said that law enforcement officers treat him as politely and correctly as possible. We drove from St. Petersburg to Moscow 9 hours by bus, and handcuffed him only after questioning, when from the Investigation Committee was transported to a temporary detention center on Petrovka. According to Serebrennikov, he does not experience any inconvenience in the cell. The cellmate of the director behaves amicably. As it turned out, a man is suspected of taking bribes.
As previously reported, the artistic director of Gogol Center is suspected of embezzlement and appropriation of 68 million rubles, allotted from the state treasury for a number of theater projects. The testimony against Kirill Serebrennikov was given by several employees of his theatrical company "The Seventh Studio". They told investigators that the director was actively involved in appropriating budget funds.
Not only the arrested former chief accountant of the company Nina Maslyaeva, but the employee of the accounting department of the "Seventh Studio" Tatyana Zhirikova, who also testified that the director participated in the embezzlement of state support funds, told about the actions exposing Serebrennikov.
The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Svetlana Petrenko, said on August 22 that the guilt of the former artistic director of Gogol Center was confirmed by the testimony of witnesses, as well as by the results of the operative investigation work and the accounting documents seized during the investigation.
If during the investigation the guilt of the director is proved, then he can wait up to ten years in prison with an impressive fine.