Vladimir Tsvetnov served his time until the verdict
The petty-bourgeois court of the capital issued a verdict on officials of the Ministry of Culture and businessmen accused of embezzling funds allocated for the repair of the Solovetsky Monastery. However, none of them will go to jail.
A large amount was allocated for the restoration of the buildings of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Solovetsky Monastery, which is under the protection of UNESCO. However, in the fall of 2019, the Investigative Committee established the fact of embezzlement of money from five government contracts concluded between 2012 and 2016.
Vladimir TsvetnovThe defendants in the case were the head of the Department of State Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Tsvetnovhis deputy Pavel Mosoloventrepreneurs Sergey Semikov And Tatyana Magdeeva. According to investigators, Tsvetnov, together with other defendants in the case, laundered budget money through unreasonably expensive historical and cultural expertise, proving that the buildings in the Solovetsky Monastery needed restoration (although many buildings did not need reconstruction). They cashed out capital with the help of Tatiana Magdeeva through shell companies. Under the guise of fake expertise, former representatives of the Ministry of Culture and businessmen deceived the state for 19 million rubles.
Pavel MosolovAll were immediately arrested. Vladimir Tsvetnov and Sergei Semikov spent 2.5 years in the pre-trial detention center while Pavel Mosolov and Tatyana Magdeeva spent three months. After that, they were all transferred to house arrest. While in the detention center, Tsvetnov and Semikov re-read the entire library, including non-fiction.
It follows from the materials of the case that officials involved the then general director of Sfera LLC Sergey Semikov and the general director of Smartfinance LLC Tatyana Magdeeva to steal money. As the investigation and the court established, Vladimir Tsvetnov “influenced the position of the competition commission, which ensured the victory of companies that subsequently received contracts for the restoration of objects in the Solovetsky Monastery.” However, the theft of funds allocated specifically for the restoration of cultural heritage sites remained outside the scope of the allocated case, and the investigation of these episodes is still ongoing. The defendants were found guilty only of embezzlement when “concluding state contracts with companies controlled by them for the collection, preparation and clarification of information and the conduct of historical and cultural examinations of cultural heritage sites.”
The key role in this, according to the investigation and the court, was played by Pavel Mosolov, who was engaged in falsifying documents in order to enter certain objects of cultural heritage into the relevant register. […] The legitimacy of the decisions of Pavel Mosolov, the case says, was given by the relevant acts and expert opinions issued by Sergey Semikov’s Sphere LLC. The role of Tatyana Magdeyeva, who during the search found the seals of 77 fictitious organizations, was reduced to cashing and bookkeeping. It is worth noting that during the trial, only Pavel Mosolov admitted his guilt in embezzlement of budgetary funds. The claim for the amount of damage caused, which the Prosecutor General’s Office filed in this case in the interests of the Ministry of Culture, has been submitted for consideration to a civil court.
