Medina said, why are the searches at the center of the Roerichs
MOSCOW, 9 Mar — RIA Novosti. Searches held in the International centre of the Roerichs in Moscow, associated with the patron of the Museum, former co-owner of Master Bank is Boris Baker, we are talking about cheating investors, said Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky.
Official representative of Russian Ministry of internal Affairs of Irina Volk said earlier that the paintings of famous artists Nicholas and Svetoslav Roerich in Moscow seized in a criminal case of major fraud in one of the banks.
Where exactly was searched, Wolf did not elaborate, but earlier it was reported that we are talking about the International centre of the Roerichs.
“These searches are connected with the activities of the main sponsor and patron of this Museum citizen Baker, who is now, as far as I know, in the international wanted list and is involved in a large number of criminal cases of deliberate bankruptcy. It is, in fact, the deception of depositors of the Bank”, — said Medina told reporters.
The Minister explained that “the center of the Roerichs in close relations with that person.”
“By the way, the connection is established law enforcement agencies, and solely related to these searches,” the Minister added.
He also confirmed that help in the storage and examination of paintings will provide the state Museum of Oriental, “which owns the largest collection of the Roerichs”
CBR 20 November 2013 issued an order to revoke Master Bank’s license for banking operations. Capital arbitrage 16 Jan 2014 acknowledged Master-Bank bankrupt and opened the bankruptcy proceedings. As follows from the judgment of the court, the time commitments of a credit institution, according to the interim administration, exceeded the assets by 17.2 billion. Master-Bank, controlled by the family of Chairman of Board of Boris Baker on the volume of deposits on October 1, 2013, he occupied 41-e a place in 47,376 billion rubles, according to the RIA Rating.