Director Kirill Serebrennikov discovered responsible of embezzlement

On June 26, a Moscow courtroom introduced down a sentence on director Kirill Serebrennikov. The decide discovered Serebrennikov responsible. He obtained a suspended sentence. Earlier, state prosecutors demanded the director be sentenced to 6 years in jail. “Being conscious concerning the allocation of funds, Serebrennikov and associates, by deceiving workers of the Ministry of Tradition of the Russian Federation, decided to arrange a steady group. In accordance with the felony plan and the distribution of felony roles in it, Serebrennikov was coordinating actions of the felony group. The courtroom concluded that Kirill Serebrennikov and the previous normal director of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itin, embezzled price range funds by deceiving workers of the Ministry of Tradition. The property have been subsequently withdrawn to accounts of corporations, from the place the funds would then be cashed,” the decide said. The courtroom additionally discovered Yuri Itin and Alexey Malobrodsky responsible within the so-called “Seventh Studio” case. Sofya Apfelbaum, the director of the Russian Tutorial Youth Theater, the decide mentioned, was unaware of the “felony intent” of the group, however was discovered responsible of negligence. The felony case associated to movie and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov attracted public consideration in Could 2017, when his Gogol Middle theater heart was searched. The founding father of the Seventh Studio, Kirill Serebrennikov, Malobrodsky, former normal director of the Seventh Studio Yuri Itin and the previous head of the Division of State Assist for Artwork of the Ministry of Tradition, Sofya Apfelbaum, seem as defendants on the case. The case of the previous chief accountant of the group, Nina Maslyaeva, who pleaded responsible and gave testimony essential to the investigation, was executed right into a separate continuing. In accordance with prosecutors, Serebrennikov and different individuals concerned within the Seventh Studio case appropriated 129 million rubles, which the Russian Ministry for Tradition allotted in 2011-2014 for the group for the event of “Platform” theater challenge. In accordance with investigators, the cash was cashed and spent. The defendants don’t plead responsible and declare that they spent all the pieces on the challenge. Initially, the defendants have been accused of embezzling 113 million rubles, however the affected celebration – the Ministry of Tradition – subsequently decreased the monetary declare in opposition to the defendants by four million rubles. It was established on account of experience that the normative price of the actions of the Platform theater challenge amounted to about 87.5 million rubles, however the challenge obtained from the price range 216.5 million rubles. The distinction between these values ​​was accepted as monetary injury. Knowledgeable teams additionally concluded that it was inconceivable to determine the overall quantity of all bills that the Seventh Studio had had in 2011-2014 as a result of lack of accounting paperwork within the felony case file.