Head of the museum was detained with a stolen icon for € 1 million

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Head of the museum was detained with a stolen icon for € 1 million

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Ministry of Culture has stood up for the museum director, who was detained with a stolen icon of all, it was agreed

MOSCOW, May 17. The Ministry of Culture of Russia stood up for the director of the Museum of Russian Icons Zadorozhny Nicholas, who was detained in "Domodedovo" stolen from a museum of the Vologda region icon.

According to Life News, the police department felt staged and dishonesty. "These people have agreed to return the icon of his own money to their homeland, - Advisor to the Minister of Culture, said Viktor Petrakov. - All actions have been agreed with our agency, power of attorney from the Department of the Vologda region was in their hands. For some reason the police decided on this propiaritsya. It ugly, we understand. "

According to the most Zadorozhny, an icon appeared in the German auction catalog, "Lindau" a couple of years ago. "When my wife and I looked at her, realized: this is the icon of the XVII century, one of the six missing from the museum of the city Ustyuzhna." He recalls that immediately appealed to the Ministry of Culture and Interpol, but the owner of the icon, Walter Gunter was able to provide all necessary documents for the work of art, then it was decided to get an icon for 25 thousand euros.

Earlier it was reported that on May 17 at the capital airport "Domodedovo" detained the director of the museum, trying to smuggle an icon of the XVII century, located in the international wanted list. In carrying out operational activities revealed that a lover of old flew from Dusseldorf, which has recently acquired a German citizen who is wanted by the icon of the XVII century, "Old Testament Trinity," stolen in 1994 from the Museum of the Vologda region, and written in 1690 painter Kirill Ulanov. According to independent experts, the price of the icons on the so-called "black market" of $ 1 million

As noted in the Interior Ministry, is currently assigned to conduct art history research, the results of which will be decided whether to institute criminal proceedings on grounds of offenses under Part 1 of Art. 226.1 of the Criminal Code (illegal movement across the state border of the Russian Federation of cultural values ​​on a large scale) of the Criminal Code.
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