“I take this positively, since such harsh measures of restriction of freedom in violation of the legality of an economic nature, regardless of links with the cultural sphere, have always seemed to us redundant. We cannot but welcome the fact that the court made the appropriate decision, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
On April 8, a court in Moscow freed Serebrennikov from house arrest.
A similar decision was also taken with respect to other defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio, produced by Yuri Itin and RAMT Director Sofia Apfelbaum.
According to investigators, they stole state subsidies allocated for the popularization of contemporary art in the amount of 133 million rubles.
The head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, Kirill Kabanov, in an interview with NSN commented on the incident.