“I ask Maslyaeva to be sentenced to two years and three months in a penal colony and released from him in connection with the departure of the investigator at the pre-trial detention center and under house arrest,” TASS quoted the prosecutor.
The sentence should be pronounced on June 30.
On June 26, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow announced a verdict on the Seventh Studio case on charges of embezzlement of at least 129 million rubles allocated by the Ministry of Culture for the Platform project.
Director Kirill Serebrennikov was sentenced to three years probation and a fine of 800 thousand rubles. Producers Yuri Itin and Aleksey Malobrodsky also received suspended sentences and fines, and ex-Ministry of Culture Sofia Apfelbaum was released from punishment for the expiration of the statute of limitations.