Actress Natalya Drozhzhina and her husband Yuri Tsivin, who were accused of fraud, were ready to return all the property to the family of People’s Artist of the USSR Alexei Batalov today. This was announced on Thursday, October 29, by the lawyer of the couple, Anatoly Kucherena.
However, the artist’s relatives, according to the lawyer, refuse to meet in Nikita Mikhalkov’s studio with his clients to condemn this issue.
“We offered to break the rent agreement in the presence of the investigator and the notary, return all the property, but they refuse, they say that we will not meet, we do not want to. If you don’t want to, then why did you apply to the law enforcement agencies with a statement? ” – quoted by RIA Novosti.
On October 26, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow did not arrest Drozhzhina and her husband in the case of the property of the Batalov family, despite the corresponding request from the investigation. They chose a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions.
On the same day, Yulia Ivanova, senior assistant to the head of the Moscow head office of the Investigative Committee of Russia, announced that the spouses had been charged.
According to the investigation, the widow of Batalov, who died three years ago, Gitana Leontenko and his daughter Maria, were fraudulently deprived of a share in a four-room apartment, an actor’s workshop, two apartments, one of which is located in the center of Moscow, as well as a large sum of money.
On October 16, the woman and her daughter were recognized as victims in a criminal fraud case. It was noted that registration cases for real estate objects were requested, requests were sent to financial and credit organizations for the provision of extracts on all current accounts, and a notary’s registration book was seized.
In mid-September, the Investigative Committee opened a fraud case. Members of the Batalov family filed a complaint with the police, claiming that the family was deceived and deprived of property, and this was allegedly done by the artist’s close friends who took care of him in recent years – Drozhzhina and Tsivin. As it turned out, they had a power of attorney for the real estate of Batalov’s relatives. They issued the document at the request of the actor himself, in order to help his wife and daughter in this way.
Alexey Batalov – People’s Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor. He was an actor in the Central Theater of the Russian Army, the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky, starred in the films “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”, “The Rumyantsev Case”, “The Cranes Are Flying”, “The Lady with the Dog”, etc.