Antiquary Anatoly Borovkova not reduced the term
ARTinvestment.RU   30 августа 2016

After considering the two appeals, the court decided to release from-под guards Vyacheslav Hotkevicha, and the term Anatoly Borovkov to leave unchanged — 5.5 years in a penal colony

About this decision became known on August 25, 2016 from the press-службы the Moscow city court.

the Third member of an organized group" Alexander Pepelyaev (who also was sentenced to 5.5 years) an appeal is not filed, or rather, "in due time has not brought an appeal in the manner prescribed by the Criminal-процессуальным code of the Russian Federation".

Released Vyacheslav Rutkevich — is the one who was caught red handed while stealing articles from rare books in the library. It is reported that he had repeatedly received books on forged documents, and then cut out individual articles or the entire book, substituting the entire unit in its original cover.

accused and Alexander Pepelyaev.

According to media reports, Gutkovich and Pepeliaev pointed to the antiquary Borovkova as the mastermind of the crime. Allegedly under the influence of his newspaper ads about buying avant-garde books, they went to steal from libraries. And then experienced bookseller supposedly they bought stolen books — with library stamps, without covers, collectors to resell is impossible or only at bargain prices.

needless to say that the history that gave rise to the sentence to one of the oldest members of the International Confederation of antique and art-дилеров were observed with a complete distrust my colleagues and in General a considerable part of the antique community. Some of them relied on the appeal. And here now it became known that mercy was not manifested. The term remained unchanged — 5 years and 6 months.

Anatoly Borovkov has been behind bars for 3.5 months — may 12, 2016.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: mos-gorsud.ru, ria.ru

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