Case antique finished. 9 years of strict regime colony

[Vladimir]

In the course of history, raised here http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=2805. But what has become known to the finale - 9 years of the colony. http://top.rbc.ru/society/06/08/2008/215695.shtml

Tver district court in Moscow sentenced the owner of the gallery "Russian Collection" Transfiguration Tatiana and her husband Igor Transfiguration to 9 and 8.5 years in strict regime colony, respectively. The couple were charged with selling forged paintings, stealing a figure painter Konstantin Makovsky and tax evasion amounting to 4.7 million rubles.

The court also decided to recover from the convicted 21.6 million rubles. in favor of the claim of the victim - a co-owner of the company "Elex Polus" Valeria Uzzhina.

Transfiguration found guilty on st.159 (fraud committed by an organized group of especially large size), st.164 (theft of items of artistic and historic value), st.199 (tax evasion) of the Criminal Code.