MOSCOW, February 12 - RIA Novosti. Search in the gallery "Triumph", which began on Friday evening, still ongoing, told RIA Novosti on Saturday morning, co-owner of the gallery Dmitry Hankin.
"In the morning we were not allowed into the gallery again, because there is still ongoing search" - Hankin said, adding that his lawyer Dobrovinsky also could not get inside.
Gallery building "Triumph" - an old mansion on Novokuznetskaya street in downtown Moscow, a former House receptions LogoVAZ. The exposition of the gallery consists of works by contemporary Russian and foreign artists. As told RIA Novosti Hankin, in the building are the most valuable works of art - in particular, paintings by Rubens, Picasso, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, so that the owners of "Triumph" have something to worry about. "
According to him, about what is happening gallery owner learned by chance from one of the drivers: it is not allowed into the building, "armed men in masks. Subsequently, the gallery owner found out that the visitors opened a guard, and they provide proof of the investigating committee. " "Then a car came MOE, after the nag boxes, everything blew up and rumbled," - told the agency.
He noted that the clarification leadership did not give a picture.
Official confirmation of this information in the police of the capital RIA Novosti yet could not be obtained.
As suggested by Hankin, a search in the gallery may take a few more days. "The room is large, a lot of things, to describe all this in itself will take three days, and can be - and a week" - he concluded.
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