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12.02.2011 12:04: In the Moscow art gallery "Triumph" continuing searches

law enforcement officers began searching the premises for Novokusnetskaya street last night. Picture managers still have not given any explanation.

On the morning of employees and owners of art galleries once again not allowed to work. RIA Novosti news agency said one of the leaders of the "Triumph" Dmitry Hankin. According to him, investigators still have not explained what has caused the situation. Searches of premises in Novokuznetsk street began tonight, the newspaper Kommersant. Head picture Yemelyan Zakharov said that investigators appeared at the building where the gallery staff had already left the office. They are not allowed to report on the protection of the leadership of what is happening and started to open safes and private premises and saw "grinder any beams - for all these Emelianov watched from the street.

Kommersant said that building of the gallery - it's an old mansion in the historic center of Moscow, the former House receptions LogoVAZ. Exposition "Triumph" is composed of works by contemporary Russian and foreign artists. Dmitry Hankin says it is in the building are the most valuable works of art - in particular, the paintings of Rubens, Picasso, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. So, he said, gallery owners "have something to worry about."

Lawyer manager "Triumph" Dobrovinsky believes that the searches in the gallery may be "a response to combat its owner Yemelyan Zakharov fake art." He said this in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Law enforcement agencies, the situation regarding the gallery had no immediate comment.