According to "Kommersant", October 5, Vladimir city court decided to parole owner of the antique salon "Russian Collection" Tatiana Transfiguration. She and her husband, Igor Preobrazhensky was figurant high-profile criminal case involving the sale of counterfeit paintings by Russian artists.

According to investigators by buying at auction five paintings by lesser-known European landscape painters of the XIX century for 5-6 thousand dollars each, after making these small changes in the couple sold the cloth, pass them off as works of Russian artists Alexander Kiselev and Vladimir Orlovsky and received 730 thousand dollars.

In 2008, the wife of the Transfiguration were found guilty under the Criminal Code "Fraud in the large-scale", "Theft of items of artistic and historic value" and "Tax evasion and sentenced to 5 , 5 and 5 years in prison respectively. The court also granted a civil suit to 21,6 million rubles, which gave the victim - a co-owner of "Elex Polus" Valery Uzzhin. Counsel Mrs. Transfiguration Andrew Pillars, calling the decision of the court of Vladimir "only fair", explained that "the decision of the UDO was issued only in respect of Tatiana Transfiguration. And her husband continues to serve the sentence ».

After entering the court decision to release a force protection Mrs. Transfiguration intends to apply to the European Court of Human Rights, as well as supervisory authorities, seeking review of his sentence.

Source: kommersant.ru

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