the year was marked by grandiose scandal in the Russian author’s society (RAO). At the end of June, its head Sergey Fedotov was arrested on suspicion of fraud committed in especially large size.
investigators believe that Fedotov was misled by members of the RAO and illegally alienated in property created subsidiaries property owned by this organization.
law enforcement officers appreciate the RAO inflicted the damage exceeds 500 million roubles, the lawyer Fedotov claims that the amount of damage, imputed to his client, is 297 million rubles. The Fedotova case is being investigated by the Main investigation Department of the RF IC in Moscow. The court left the head of RAO Fedotov in custody until February 17.
as for the events in the Society, uniting the creative elite — composers, poets and music publishers, they developed quite rapidly.
After his arrest, photos of the members of the RAO, being outraged by the opaque financial system and the allocation of royalties, initiated the extraordinary conference of the Society.
This turned out to be unhappy associated with Fedotov of the representatives of the RAO, who accused the initiators of the conference “raider seizure”. However, the legitimacy of the conference initiators to hold still managed, despite the active opposition supporters arrested Fedotov.
In her August 31, was elected the new head of the RAO. He became General Director of the First music publishing houses (MIT) Maxim.
From the opposing side after the conference, was sued in the courts, so the first months he could not fully perform their duties: work RAO was virtually paralyzed.
it was only towards the end of the year the situation began to gradually stabilize. About this and also about the plans of RAO in 2017, in an interview Вестям.Ru said Maxim Dmitriev.
According to him, despite the opposition of the opponents to make in recent months has done a lot. Last week the Ministry of justice was signed all the necessary documents for the normal functioning of the Executive bodies of the RAO.
On the 29th December a meeting of the authors ‘ Council of RAO, is already familiar to the authors of building on Bolshaya Bronnaya street, in order to discuss together the questions for next year. In particular, on measures of the financial health of the organization, conducting financial audits, transparency.
According to Dmitriev, it is necessary to examine all operations of RW over the years, as well as non-core assets, which can eventually lead to problems for the organization
“In the nearest time will the full picture to determine the specific steps and actions”, — said Maxim Dmitriev.
the question about the lawsuits to the new leadership of RAO from the old, Dmitriev said: “in fact, we can say that all the courts, initiated by our opponents, they were lost. The courts examined in detail the whole procedure of convening and holding the conference examined a huge volume of documents – the court had to bring dozens of boxes of letters and papers of more than 14 thousand authors from all over Russia. Ultimately, the court came to the conclusion that the conference was held in full accordance with the law.”
At the same time Dmitriev said that the new RAO there is a desire to put all over the “table of truce.”
He recalls that initially none of the initiators of the extraordinary conference would not split. The conflict mostly involved people not directly related to creativity. For example, among these “dissenters” were Andrey Lukinov — Director of the production center Igor Matvienko.
“on the Contrary, was and remains the task to establish the normal activities of the organization, like Dmitriev. — All talked about how to preserve it, and set the task to improve its operations, transparency. Because the discontent was this.”
According to Dmitriev, neither he nor the members of the new Copyright Board with anybody were not at war.
“We just talked about the fact that the authors who are the creators and members of the RAO have the right, in accordance with the Charter of the organization, to participate in its activities and governance, which previously was not,” recalls Maxim.
According to him, the Society normally operates, taking all necessary measures to prevent the blocking of accounts of the organization because of the actions of the former management of RAO. “Our goal is to ensure the stability and continuity of payments to authors,” says Dmitriev.
“Being necessary negotiations, concludes agreements, including licensing. The truth is there is no access to the accounts and financial documents, now this issue is resolved,” — said the new head of the RAO.
as soon as the new management intends to hold talks with the former management of RAO to get access to financial documents and begin to implement plans to eliminate its accounting “from the shadows” in full transparency.
this Maxim Dmitriev is confident that the buzz around RAO is no more reason, as voiced earlier by opponents of the new leadership statements about the alleged “raider seizure” of the company.
“Probably, communal facilities and someone captures or property. And we are talking about public organisations, the main asset of which are the authors, like Maxim. – And no one to capture.”
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