The Moscow City Court upheld the arrest of the deputy minister of culture Pirumova – TASS

MOSCOW, August 25. / TASS /. The Moscow City Court upheld the extension of the arrest of the deputy minister of culture of the Russian Federation Grigory Pirumova accused on charges of embezzling state funds.

As the correspondent of TASS, so the court rejected the appeal of his defense.

“Resolution of the Lefortovo court of Moscow remain unchanged, the protection of the complaint “, – announced the decision of the judge

Deputy Defence requested the release under house arrest since he sees no reason for his detention.. “Pirumova need dental surgery, which is performed under general anesthesia,” – said the defender, justifying his request

The very Pirumov stated that no examination or held for five and a half months.. “Appointed only two examination on two counts apparently delayed their conduct intentionally, had reason to prolong the detention.”, – He said earlier
Lefortovo court of Moscow has extended the detention Pirumova and others involved in the case until 15 October. .

defendants in the case of theft of the Ministry of culture are eight people – Deputy Minister of culture of Russia Grigory Pirumov, director of “Baltstroy” Dmitry Sergeev, managing the company Alexander Kochenov, director of asset management department and the investment policy of the Ministry of Boris Mazo, director under the Ministry of FGKU “Tsentrrestavratsiya” Oleg Ivanov, advisor to the general director of LLC “Linnit- Consult” Nikita Kolesnikov, head of the Directorate for construction, reconstruction and restoration of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Boris Tsagaraev and project manager OOO “Strojkomplekt” and JSC “Baltstroy” Vladimir Svanbek.

All of them are charged under part. 4 Art. 159 of the Criminal Code ( “Fraud in a large scale, committed by a group of persons”), which provides for punishment up to 10 years in prison. None of the accused does not plead guilty.

According to investigators, in 2012 Pirumov created a criminal group whose members concluded state contracts with false information and inflated the cost of services to perform restoration work in order to steal money. In fact until four episodes featured: embezzlement of funds allocated to the restoration of the ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent, in Pskov Drama Theater, St. John the Baptist Monastery and Museum of Cosmonautics in Kaluga. According to one of the lawyers, the amount of damage is more than 100 million rubles