“Maslyaeva stole the funds allocated for the implementation of the theatrical project“ Platforma, ”the judge quotes TASS.
The punishment will be named in the final part of the judicial act.
The prosecutor's office requested that Maslyaev be sentenced to two years and three months in prison and released from punishment in connection with the serving of this period at the investigation stage.
On June 26, persons involved in the Seventh Studio case were sentenced on charges of embezzlement of at least 129 million rubles allocated by the Ministry of Culture for the Platform project.
Serebrennikov received three years of probation and a fine of 800 thousand rubles. The producers Yuri Itin and Aleksey Malobrodsky also received suspended sentences and fines; ex-employee of the Ministry of Culture Sofya Apfelbaum was released from punishment for the expiration of the statute of limitations.