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Investigative Committee of Russia (MRS) confirmed the searches in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. According to the press service of the department, are searched in the expert division FGUK “State Tretyakov Gallery” in the criminal case opened under Part 1 of article 226 of the Criminal Code (smuggling of cultural values). The case was opened against the head of the territorial election commission of the Lomonosov district of Moscow, a 33-year-old man, whose name was not called.
According to the investigation April 29, 2015, during customs control at Vnukovo airport, the suspect He reported having had five paintings worth 180 thousand. rub., which were subject to a mandatory written declaration to the customs and export of which to the territory of the Customs Union is prohibited or restricted. This man gave false information on the cost of the painting, which in reality is no less than 1 million 900 thousand. Rub., Noted in the TFR.
In the near future plans to present the investigation the suspect charged.
Earlier, a law enforcement source told the agency the capital “Moscow” that searches were held in the office of the head of the department of painting of the first half of XX century the Tretyakov Gallery Tatyana Ermakova, which is one of the defendants in the criminal case.
The source also told the publication that a man, who was arrested at the customs control, trying to take out Russian paintings of Valentin Serov, Pyotr Konchalovsky, and other famous artists, and that the total value of the paintings can be more than 15 million rubles. The man gave false documents, which were signed in the working staff of the Ministry of Culture of the Tretyakov Gallery.
According to LifeNews, export of paintings abroad was put on stream. One of the experts of the Ministry of customers was allegedly a Russian businessman Alfred Koch, who was trying to take out of Russia now, the cost of which made up of the declaration does not exceed 18 thousand. Rub.
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