Media: Director of the Department of the Ministry of Culture was arrested on high-profile case of theft – Rosbalt.RU

 In Moscow, on the high-profile case of embezzlement of budget funds in the construction and restoration of cultural heritage detained the director of property management and investment policy department Boris Mazo. This Life News reported an informed source.

 It is known that in the capital are now conducted searches at the premises of the Ministry of Culture. Earlier it was informed about the arrest in Rostov-on-Don Deputy Culture Minister Gregory Pirumova. As noted by the source of TASS, the case for which was detained Pirumov associated with the restoration of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow.

 “At one time,” Pskov province “describes in detail the corruption scheme around the restoration of the fortress of Izborsk. According to some reports, at the Ministry of Culture was created by a private organization, through which hundreds of millions of rubles were based on results. This is despite the fact that the authorized capital of the company amounted to only 10 thousand “, -. Sizlozhil” Rosbalt “his version of events ex-deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly Leo Schlossberg

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 According to her, who was arrested on Tuesday Pirumov Gregory came to the Ministry of Culture to place Cherepennikova Constantine, whose Pskov “Apple” name responsible for the theft in the restoration of monuments. According Shlosberg volume virtually unacknowledged work in Izborsk was not less than 60 million rubles, which was the reason for initiating a criminal case. Contractor government contracts the company called “Baltstroy,” which is associated with the St. Petersburg billionaire Dmitry Mihalchenko. (In St. Petersburg, JSC “Baltstroy” engaged in the reconstruction of objects such as St. Petersburg State University, the Admiralty, State Philharmonic Society named after Shostakovich, Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas, they BDT. BDT, etc.).

 

 According to “Rosbalt” sources, the FSB raided the office and apartment Mihalchenko entrepreneur.

 FSB opened a criminal case against several senior Culture Ministry employees suspected of embezzlement of funds allocated for the restoration of cultural heritage.