Kirill Serebrennikov was given three years probation
Artistic director of the Gogol Center, famous USA director and screenwriter Kirill Serebrennikov was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence and a fine of 800,000 rubles. Other defendants were also sentenced to suspended sentences: Yuri Itin - to three years (a fine of 200 thousand), Aleksey Malobrodsky - to two years (a fine of 200 thousand). An official of the Ministry of Culture, Sofya Apfelbaum, was found guilty of negligence , but she was released from the obligation to pay the fine. The arrested property of the accused will be turned into state revenue. Serebrennikov was banned from changing his place of residence without notice.
Recall that investigative actions have been conducted since the spring of 2017. Initially, Serebrennikov was a witness in the case, but later he was detained and placed under house arrest. In August 2017, the investigating authorities seized the passport from Serebrennikov. According to the testimony of the former accountant of the Seventh Studio Nina Maslyaeva, Serebrennikov, the former general director of the studio, Yuri Itin, and the former general producer of the enterprise, Alexei Malobrodskiy, created a company to "realize criminal intent," namely, to embezzle funds allocated by the state. The Topic of Article: Kirill Serebrennikov was given three years probation. |
