Monday, March 21, 2016

Deputy Minister of Culture on Thursday accused – Kommersant

As the “Kommersant” on Thursday to present a FSB Investigation Department arrested the Ministry of Culture officials and businessmen suspected of embezzling 53 million rubles. during the restoration of the monasteries of Moscow, charged with fraud especially large. Before that, the lawyers filed a Moscow city court appeals on their arrest.

Cooking complaints lawyers began immediately after the decision of the Lefortovo court about the arrest on Wednesday Deputy Culture Minister George Pirumova, Director Department of property management and investment policy of the Ministry of Boris Mazo, director subordinated to the Ministry of FGKU “Tsentrrestavratsiya” Oleg Ivanov, and advisor to the General Director of LLC “Linnit-Consult” Nikita Kolesnikov. Investigation Department of the Federal Security Service suspects them of embezzling more than 53 million rubles. during the restoration in 2012-2015, the Novodevichy and Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow by overstating prices for restoration work.

The complaints that have been filed in the Moscow City Court on Monday, according to the invalidity and the illegality of an arrest warrant. Lawyers say that the representative of the investigation, pleading for restraint measures, and could not convincingly justify neither its argument, in particular that, if at large, the suspects may flee, continue to engage in criminal activities, threaten witnesses, destroy evidence or obstruct the proceedings. In this connection, the lawyer Mr. Ivanov Alexey Kurganov said that the FSB did not provide any information about what the suspects may commit these unlawful acts. He referred to the decision of the plenum of the Supreme Court dated 29 October 2009, which stated that the preventive measure in the form of detention should be elected only in exceptional cases.

The complaints indicate that, seeking the arrests, a consequence almost as the main argument relied on the gravity of the alleged crimes – fraud on a large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code..). But, according to the protection, security officers have not provided the court is no conclusive evidence linking the suspects to the crime.

As already informed “Kommersant”, Investigations Directorate of the FSB believes that in 2012, the Deputy Minister Georgy Pirumov created a criminal group which included his subordinates and businessmen. Signed a contract for the restoration of cultural sites, in particular the Moscow Novodevichy and Ivanovsky Convent, officials in coordination with the restorers deliberately inflated the cost of services for execution of works for the purpose of subsequent theft of money.

Alex Sokovnin


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