The ex-director of the Moscow theater was detained on suspicion of embezzlement of budget funds.

The former head of a Moscow theater has been detained on suspicion of fraud. This was announced on Thursday, August 28, by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.

"The crime play has been playing out for several years in one of the leading theaters in the capital. According to the investigation, its director (now former) is suspected of fraud," Wolf wrote on her Telegram channel.

According to investigators, the suspect, together with his accomplices, created a scheme to steal funds intended for the Moscow budget. It is clarified that the ex-director registered as an individual entrepreneur and concluded fictitious copyright agreements with the theater, indicating that he allegedly wrote scripts for performances and transferred the rights to them to the institution.

Based on fake reports, the man received an income of 4% of the box office receipts of each performance. A criminal case has been opened against the defendant under the article on fraud on an especially large scale.

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On May 16, a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale during the construction of a building for the Mariinsky Theater was opened in St. Petersburg. According to the Izvestia source, the institution transferred 95.9 million rubles to the companies, which the contractors disposed of at their discretion, which caused material damage to the theater. The next day, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Arsen Movsesyan, accused of fraud during the construction of an administrative and production building for the Mariinsky Theater.

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