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February 5 court in St. Petersburg ruled that art , auction house experts Elena Basner Bukowski , who is accused of fraud on a large scale , will remain under house arrest. Prior to that, she was held in jail . Investigators believe that in 2009, Basner , a specialist in Russian avant-garde painting , promoted the sale of collector and doctor Andrei Vasilyev fake paintings, the original of which is stored in the Russian Museum. Basner colleagues surprised and angered her detention and in prison , unwilling to its conclusion at the time of trial and Vasiliev himself . " Lenta.ru, " tried to figure out what the suspect critic .

"She's a very decent man , very thin ," - says " Lente.ru " Valentine Shiheeva , second cousin and close friend Elena Basner . She echoed Irina Karasik , Basner worked with the Russian Museum. "In my opinion , Lena and fraud - are absolutely incompatible in all its human and professional qualities , not to mention the fact that she was the person who initiated the invention is a method aimed at identifying fakes" - she explains .
From purchase to business

In 2009, Elena Basner , a former employee of the Russian Museum , world-renowned expert , Michael turned Aranson ( featured in the press as well as Aronson ) to verify the authenticity of paintings by Boris Grigoriev ( 1886-1939 ) " restaurant ", dating from 1913 . Studied painting and art historian , relying on style and other visual aspects , verbally gave Aranson positive conclusion. She soon found a buyer for this picture - the general director of the St. Petersburg publishing house " The Golden Age" Leonid SHumakova . Shumakov , in turn, sold the painting in 2009 for an amount greater physician and collector Andrey Vasilyev says " Lente.ru " Valentine Shiheeva . Vasiliev wrote "Kommersant" in 2011 , regularly collaborated with the publisher : he asked SHumakova reported the arrival on the market works from famous collections of pre-revolutionary or catalogs.

Grigorieva fabric suitable for both criteria. According to most collectors, he described the " restaurant " as a picture from the collection of Nikolai Nikolaevich Timofeev ( it Vasiliev knew personally ) , who in 1930 bought the product directly from the collector Alexander Burceva . " The presence of a large number in the Timofeyev paintings Grigorieva Basner knew only I and another man " - says Vasiliev comment on Colta.ru

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Irina Waqar , Dmitry Hankin , Andrey Vasilyev and Milena Orlova discuss charges.

[SPOILER] Source: http://tvrain.ru/articles/mongajt_su...kartin-362077/

Mongait : I have a general question to you , which I would like to ask each of you to answer . As you consider whether to blame Elena Basner ? Because today , I know , a petition was made public on the museum staff , Moscow and St. Petersburg . Piotrowski signed it .

Waqar : I think what she is accused , that is of assistance in the manufacture of fake paintings , absolutely unreal accusation. I think even a fairly absurd . But maybe this is a bug expert, which , generally speaking, he is entitled. That I can not exclude yet.

Mongait : How to distinguish false from fraud examination ?

Waqar : Knowingly False examination when the expert knows what this thing is , for example, made it to a friend yesterday . Another thing, if he was fascinated by , or under the influence of some kind of emotional perception (maybe wrong ) it does not verify the provenance of the painting does not check her age, does not compare with known samples , especially if it is , we assume variations of the same composition. Then of course he is guilty, but it is not a deliberate deception , is an expert mistake.

Mongait Dmitry , do you think?

Hankin : There are formal signs in this case , which is unlikely to allow the blame Elena Basner Veniaminovna all mortal sins . It was not a party to the transaction . Since it is impossible to ask for it, she did not get the money , it seems. Either he brokered .

Mongait : The mediator may not be an interested party ?

Hankin : Mediator - the interested party . The question is whether it was party to the transaction . If so, how deep . I, too, now when we look at this story , it seems that all sewn with white thread . I heard about this story a year ago. We shortstop Vasilyev , our world is very small. But in any case, the person did not commit a violent crime , is unlikely to have to languish in the dungeon , there are other ways .

Mongait : You know, today it has redirected the home. It will house arrest.

Hankin : At least , it somehow looks like something .

Mongait : I would like to give the floor to Andrey Vasilyev. Andrew , hello , can you hear us ?

Vasilyev : Yes , I hear good evening. I am ready to answer your questions .

Mongait : That's great . Let's join .

Vasilyev : As I side of the process and the victim , I certainly believe that Elena Basner blame, but its share of guilt - because the whole story was accomplished group of individuals - can only be determined at the end of the investigation in court. Maybe she is guilty by 5%, maybe more . But certainly not 100 %. And though she is not the first violin . There are other people who are the main party. This is the first circumstance . What I would like to mention? I heard that someone from respected experts said that it is accused of making fake . That's not true . She has not been accused of making fake . She is accused that she was a participant of the chain . She was not an expert , you know what it is. Expert gives his expert opinion. Elena Veniaminovna called Mr. Shumakov and said that there is a wonderful picture of Grigorieva Leningrad good collection of old , where there are some wonderful paintings Grigorieva , and asked him whether he had a buyer for this picture. But only on condition that he did not disclose its participation in this . If it is called "expertise" , gentlemen , then Roma in the street who sell singed obviously also experts .

Hankin : So , what I'm telling you.

Vasilyev : This is the first . Second: Elena Veniaminovna received money . And there was an interesting story. Mr. Shumakov got all quite a large sum , it happened on July 11 at 12 noon. And already somewhere in 13.00 man named Aranson, which we figure remains enigmatic figure slightly virtual ( no one has ever seen , do not know it exists or not , assume that it is) , received 180 thousand dollars. 70 thousand dollars melted on the road with the Petrograd side in the city center . There's just go, but they disappeared . During this time the money was in the hands of two people - and SHumakova Basner . There was nobody else . I learned about the participation of Ms. Basner and a half years only. I do not know in what capacity while Ms. Basner took part in it : as an expert ? No. She participated as a secret member of a certain chain. I do not want to be unfounded , you can open the program " Man and Law " for October 6, 2011 . There's all said Shumakov and Basner lawyer says : "She did not act here as an expert , it was just the seller's representative ."

Mongait : Why did not you pursue Seller paintings and pursue it ? Why it is now under investigation ?

Vasilyev : I wrote a letter to the Estonian police. What does " stalking "? I did not pursue . I figured out the truth. I'm not arrested Ms. Basner , arrested her Investigative Committee . Note that last four years. All four years I act only in the legal field . I'm writing some application , I go to court , because the investigation of the district level hides documents not bring them to court , we accuse them of illegal omissions. We won , I think , five processes on illegal inaction ! Blame Elena Basner . I tried to solve the matter through civil proceedings . I filed a lawsuit to Mr. Shumakov in the hope that it will be then issue preclusion , and we can pay recourse to Ms. Basner . Do you think these gentlemen came to the court at least once ? They never came to court , never explain. You've heard the explanation once Ms. Basner for three years? I read with astonishment now on the internet after making calls to their authors to the fact that Ms. Basner should be free. I join . But why all these people were not asked four years Ms. Basner , and how you can deceive a person for such a sum , to sell fake , has just come out with an expertise center Grabar , and walk around the city , to be quite rukopozhatnoy , be a world expert ? How to think in the plane of the intelligentsia , and the decency to do it all ?

Mongait : Have you heard the version that Ms. Basner pursues mafia because of its sensational invention, which is allegedly criminal life collapses the whole clan engaged in forgery ? I can not articulate this question, because today I have heard many times about this , read the text in which this situation can be explained in this way.

Vasilyev : There is a parallel story , there are all sorts of paraotrasli , parascience . First, this whole method is called , very unclean.

Mongait : Let us recall that this method associated with the discovery of isotopes in the works since 1945 , related to the nuclear tests .

Vasilyev : If I have the opportunity not in a transmission format and in written format , write and give examples of fantastic blunders that can be evaluated as an error of this method or as deliberately deceitful actions . I wonder one thing . Just yesterday, my friend told me that he was offered in the Russian Museum to try this method , and co-author Ms. Basner , Mr. Krusanov , quietly came to the Russian Museum , where work has been put someone else and there her manipulated . I think it's more likely still persecution aliens Ms. Basner .

Mongait : How do you think why did it now Investigative Committee responded to your claim ?

Vasilyev : First, because I am what is called , the last boy scout . I set myself a challenge: to find out the truth in this story. I absolutely do not want to put Ms. Basner , believe me. When a person spits in your face for three years , I want to understand why he does it. I understand that she is an intelligent person , but hardly the only reason . I acted according to the law . First of all , I talked to her . She told me : " See you in court." I am a straightforward man . I went to the police in police custody for two weeks had a scan and said: " Here the point is clear, clean water is a scam . Farmazonstvo . " And all sent in consequence . And in consequence kidding me throughout the year. And I gave them to court . Water wears away the stone . I wrote a letter Medinsky because clear to me how it all happened . Medinsky has had a letter , obviously, some action : Well , let's institute proceedings . Case filed , police handed over to GSM . And it zalesh " gasoline " using kakih-nibud petitions, complaints , it works , while " petrol " is not going to end , then it goes to sleep . Everything is there sufficient grounds to refer the matter to court. But since they have suspended it , I saw in the newspaper (it is the story of a film, how to live correctly) announcement that takes Bastrikin citizens. Signed up , got to the reception , told this story .

Mongait : a Miracle .

Vasiliev But miracles do happen . I swear , without cronyism got there .

Mongait : I have one last question to you . Fakes on the market Russian avant-garde meet not just regularly, and more than regularly. Why do you think in this case it was possible to have a case for an art critic for the intermediary transaction ? Why these cases is so surprising enough?

Vasilyev : Forget the word "expert" . She did not speak here as an expert. Please.

Mongait : Even in the case of intermediaries in transactions involving counterfeit works.

Vasilyev : Explain. None of this would not have happened if not for one thing : a job that is in the Russian Museum , never exhibited , never been played , she got to the store Russian Museum and lay there . Now I'll tell you an interesting thing : when I bought it at SHumakova you remember that he did not utter the name of Basner , he uttered the name of General Timofeev , whom I knew well, this doctor - psychiatrist . But he said the name Savanovich Julia . She really saw this picture in Basner . She is curator of drawings. She did not know that this thing has in her department . Basner - let's believe it , I want to believe her , I am very sorry and sympathize with - did not know too. Moreover, Tamara Galeeva , the author of a monograph on Grigoriev , which made it just in the 2000s , came to St. Petersburg. She provided by the inventory and catalog all the drawings and paintings Grigorieva . She was not given the job. This kind of mysticism , you know ! About this job nobody knew or associated with this work, a mysterious story. I have no explanation for this . Basner thus described the job. Whatever she may say there , I saw something documents . Cyrus B. Okuneva before his death was a detailed list of all the works of his father , along with a collection Levitin . This list all things were to be transferred to the Russian Museum . Took them from the Russian Museum Basner and people with the surname type Ignatenko , restorer ( something like that ) . I'll tell you that no one heard : Filonov "Hunters " from the same collection appeared on the market over time. Is now in St Petersburg's famous meeting. I know who sold it . You too can guess .

Mongait : This is a dangerous accusation. Especially in ether.

Vasilyev : Yes ? I express it . Another charge . From the same collection Lebedev, which I offered to buy Leonid Shumakov . This is not an accusation . About all these facts to me was the statement separately . But because many years have passed , and that, fifth - tenth , one will not do it . I'll do it. I'll write a little book or something like that .

Mongait : You have heard that said Andrey Vasilyev .

Waqar : I heard . Several reasons I can think of . First of all , ever heard " made examination , it appeared that it was a fake ." Where this examination ? Who did it ? Very dear Grabar Center ? You know how many times I have as an expert opinion at odds with the center Grabar ? You know how many times we happened that chemists center Grabar find any titanium dioxide , and our chemists are not . Other equipment , and there is not. I have not seen that picture , which was bought by Andrey Vasilyev . He said , in my opinion , completely unacceptable in the tone of the method , which has developed Andriy Krusanov , highly respected art historian, rarest , who created the " History of the Russian avant-garde" , which we now use as a first reference. I do not understand in chemistry and physics , let me forgive , but I look like an expert at work, and if I doubt it, or vice versa, do not doubt it, and say that it must be attributed to Krusanov , I never there was no case to divergent views . It's just my experience . If Andrey Vasilyev knows the case when we are together with Krusanov confirmed some gaffe , as he says , that he will present it to me . I find it very interesting , because I use other methods of examination. I work mostly in the team, with his colleagues , and I assure you that it somehow , perhaps miraculously , but absolutely confirms our intuition.

Mongait : You are talking about the method . A charge that pushes against Vasiliev Elena Basner ?

Waqar : I can not speak on the merits , when I saw two pictures next - painting , which he had bought , and a picture that is in the Russian Museum. For us , the museum staff , the most important method , the only true method - to put things close . While it is not until there is a constant secrecy , reticence . We do not see even the examination , actually . Who signed expertise as an art ? I do not know . Where such art , which we can take a word , it's a fake ?

Mongait : This does not say here , but later examination was made by the Russian Museum . Apparently , the comparative examination of the two works. How this scandal discredits Institute experts and museum system?

Waqar : He can not discredit the museum system. Just before I go to you, we speculated with colleagues, if we have all the expert community . Most likely, it is not.

Mongait : discredit nothing.

Waqar : Experts are very fragmented . Everyone lives their own, except, perhaps , of our department , a group that works together . And basically , the experts - strange people . Sometimes it is very respected person , of whom you know , love , appreciate , and which do you think is a lovely man , suddenly making expertise. You read it and think: " No, I think quite differently ." There must be some special talent , some special responsibility , some special intuition, even mood. Sometimes it happens that one expert a good mood it seems that this original, but in a bad mood - it seems fake.

Mongait : It's catastrophic recognition , no?

Hankin : No, why? Normal recognition. We are faced with this .

Mongait : For the same cost huge sums of money.

Hankin : Usually. Nothing to worry about.

Mongait : Like " nothing wrong "?

Hankin : What to do now ?

Waqar : Because apart from expert opinion is necessary to know the provenance of all these technological times . And do not spend one examination , but several different methods.

Hankin : Agree with this. Buyer must be careful . This is taught from the beginning. And do not take anything for granted. But I know Vasilyeva ago, he was a man very meticulous, very simply . As a man , the victim at different times from different injustices , I do not think it is driven by the desire of some bloodthirsty seat . No, of course . This is a story about the struggle for justice. I'm sure he was trying to resolve this out of court, not leading to the investigation.

Mongait : But there 's the problem of irresponsibility experts?

Hankin : We have agreed not to pass on personalities .

Mongait : I'm not suggesting you should switch personalities .

Hankin : there are mistakes , there are deliberate skimping true.

Waqar : Sometimes the expert makes a mistake when he feels very confident.

Mongait : Or in a bad mood , I already knew .

Hankin : In the terrible catastrophe fall very confident drivers .

Mongait : I would like to join our conversation Milena Orlova , chief editor of the authoritative art edition The Art Newspaper Russia, and to hear her opinion as a disinterested party.

Hankin : We're not interested .

Mongait : You still expert, you gallerist and Andrey Vasilyev - the victim .

Orlov : I have , unfortunately, can not see , I hope you see me . Good evening. We tested all the time articles about what is happening in the art world , the constant scandals associated with counterfeiting. Very long stretches scandal with such a lady named Glaphira Rosales , who managed somehow to deceive so many experts. I did not hear the beginning of your discussion , but I stand firm on the fact that there is such a thing as a mistake, but not a criminal . Indeed, everyone can make mistakes. The saddest thing is that even questioned the profession expert.

Hankin : Unaffected .

Waqar : It can not be subjected .

Orlov : I believe that even if the judge made a mistake , and even if wrong by design , anyway, he is an expert. It's such a special profession , such people are very few who understand anything in the art , to be honest . This " piece goods ".

Hankin : I do not agree with what sounded from the lips of Milena , because I want all of you to return to the conversation Vasilyeva that it was not an expert error . It 's not the point . It's about business expert.

How much ? No one knows.

Everything is possible .

Clear.