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Lawyer: Gallery "Triumph" sue the prosecutor. Vzglyad.ru

 «Triumph intends to sue the prosecutor's office to demand compensation for damage caused during the raid, lawyer said Sunday the gallery owner Yemelyan Zakharova Dobrovinsky.

Search in the old mansion at Novokuznetsk in central Moscow, the former home of Logovaz, which now occupies the "Triumph", was held on the night from Friday to Saturday. The gallery exhibited works by contemporary Russian and foreign artists, but at the time of the search were found there, in particular the work of Rubens, Picasso, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, according to RIA Novosti.

According Dobrovinsky, law enforcement officials with his "rude and insensitive" actions have damaged the gallery.
"There was some reason cracked safe, take other measures that I can be regarded only as an attempt to intimidate people," - he said.

Earlier Dobrovinsky reported that following a search "seized more than 150 items, including computers, discs, large sums of money." In particular, according to gallery co-owner Dmitry Hankin, was seized computer itself Yemelyan Zakharov, one of the safes had been opened, the other taken away. In this case, all works of art have remained in place.

Counsel clarified that the lawsuit will be filed to the Prosecutor's Office, authorizing a search, after calculating the damage.

Dobrovinsky noted that the search was under criminal investigation under Part 4 of Article 159 (fraud in large-scale) of the Criminal Code, instituted against another gallery owner Ivan Nazarov.

"Law enforcement officials apparently decided that if this Nazarov friends with the owner of the gallery, then there can rush all night, and intimidate" - said the defender.

According Dobrovinsky, Nazarov was arrested on the evening of 11 February, together with three other persons involved in criminal proceedings. "But the situation is a phantasmagoric, as the prosecutor refused to certify the petition investigation of the arrest Nazarov. As a result, at 4 am on Sunday, Nazarov was released, and 4.5 delayed to another criminal case and was taken to Sergiev Posad to arrest "- explained Dobrovinsky.

The lawyer does not yet have information on the outcome of the investigation of election petition against Nazarov preventive measure in the form of detention. He was also unable to comment on the alleged crimes Nazarov.

As reported by Hankin, about what was happening, he searched and Zakharov learned on Friday by pure chance, one of the drivers: it is not allowed in the building of armed masked men. " Subsequently, the gallery owners have found that visitors, vpuschennye guards, provide proof of staff of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Official confirmation of the information law enforcement until the capital was not available.

Zakharov said earlier that the arrested Ivan Nazarov - his friend, a collector, and often visited the gallery. According to Zakharov, Nazarov was arrested on 11 February, but the causes of his arrest, he does not know.