Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The Hermitage confirmed the holding of the FSB activities in the repository – Interfax

Moscow. 31 Jan. INTERFAX.RU – the State Hermitage Museum confirmed the conduct of law enforcement activities at the site.

“According to our information, in the areas of Restoration and storage centre “Old Village” is the operative event for the survey of one of the premises of administrative services,” – said on the Museum’s website.

“Any documents in the possession of the State Hermitage Museum no. None of the members of the Hermitage staff not involved in the event. The activities of the Museum is in normal mode. Any explanations on the substance of the issues the representatives of the office of the Federal security service for St. Petersburg and Leningrad region were not given, resulting in the State Hermitage Museum does not have any information about the reasons of a procedural check”, – stated in the message.

Earlier the source in law enforcement bodies told “Interfax” that the law enforcement agencies, including the FSB, hold events in the Winter Palace. According to him, it is about the investigation of a case concerning the construction of one of the objects of the State Hermitage.

In UFSB across Petersburg and Leningrad region, “Interfax” refused to comment on the situation.

meanwhile, according to the city the Internet-editions “Fontanka”, the case concerns the construction of the second phase of the storage facility of the Hermitage Museum on School street. As noted by the media, contracted by 3.67 billion rubles was signed “with the infamous Moscow company “Mekhstroytrans”, the management and owners of which were involved in the “Large business of the Ministry of culture”.

“Fontanka” recalls that in 2016, has received about 1 billion rubles of advance “Mekhstroytrans” led work significantly behind schedule and had not paid the subcontractors of the work performed. Hermitage claimed that the backlog is not of a critical nature, and the company promised to accelerate the pace of work.

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