“The Kuybyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg registered a criminal case against Grigory Pirumov,” the statement said.
As noted, it has not yet been accepted for production.
According to the prosecution, in 2015 Pirumov and Boris Mazo, who headed the Department of Property Management and Investment Policy of the Ministry of Culture, created a criminal community to steal the budget allocated for the reconstruction of the Hermitage and legalize the kidnapped.
In November, it was reported that Maso, put on the international wanted list for alleged fraud, was brought for interrogation in Austria.