Vladimir Kekhman, General Director of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky. Archival photoMOSCOW, January 22 Vladimir Kekhman, General Director of the Gorky Moscow Art Academic Theater (MKhAT), told RIA Novosti that he wrote a statement to the police, and law enforcement officers opened a criminal case on the fact of embezzlement of more than 4 million rubles from theater box office.» From December 1, 2021, the treasury began its audit at the theater. We began an inventory. Chief Accountant Galina Getman contacted me several times, saying that we could not provide the documents necessary for verification for certain reasons. I understood that «That's not right, I called all the accounting department, talked to them, explained that it was important for us to do everything as quickly as possible. When I saw that there was some resistance on their part, it alerted me,» Kekhman told RIA Novosti.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/41a89e2b70d96866f2dd5ca16190288b.jpg" /> Kekhman believes that the Moscow Art Theater does not need an artistic director at the moment. He said that earlier, in particular, in the Ministry of Culture, he There were reports of similar resistance from the theater accounting department in providing documents during other audits. The general director of the theater fired Getman. According to Kekhman, later the accounting department discovered the loss of more than 4.2 million rubles, which should have been in the safe. «First, we will hand over all the documents to the investigation, and then I will be able to tell about them. I wrote a statement to the police, a criminal case was initiated this week,» Kekhman said.
