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Of these, 212 are registered. After the seizure of all the items, which has not yet been completed, a forensic archaeological examination will be carried out.
Confiscated items are material evidence, there is no access to them
6,332 are the artifacts found so far in the office of Vasil Bozhkov, who has 18 charges, including leading two criminal groups. However, already at the end of January, the Special Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating against the businessman, predicted that the number of articles with cultural values would exceed 10,000.
They were everywhere on the premises, including the basement, the garage and the subscriber station at 43 Moskovska Street.
It houses the Vasil Bozhkov Museum of the Trakia Foundation. According to the property document, the building consists of a basement, three floors and an attic. Objects of cultural value were also found in Bozhkov’s house on Vasil Levski Blvd.
Of all the thousands of artifacts registered under the Cultural Heritage Law, however, only 212.
The search and seizure in the Moskovska 43 building
started
January 30
with permission of
specializations
cut
Two days earlier, Bozhkov had received the first charges. They opposed the financial and tax system, including the non-payment of BGN 700 million in lottery fees. A short time later, he was accused of possession and expropriation of cultural values that were not registered in the corresponding order.
The search in his office began with a complete inspection, filming and recording according to the procedure established by law of all the premises of the building, each of which was conditionally numbered. The objects discovered with the marks of movable cultural values were photographed in the presence of poets, the manager of Nove International EOOD, authorized lawyers of the Trakia Foundation, archaeologists and restorers, representatives of the Ministry of Culture and the Trakia Foundation. .
After the seizure of all the items, which has not yet been completed, a forensic archaeological examination will be appointed, which will be assigned to a team of international experts.
Items seized from Bozhkov’s office went to the National Museum of History (NMH) and the National Gallery of Art (NHG).
All curators, art critics, restorers from both institutions have been strictly warned by the Prosecutor’s Office not to comment on the type, status and value of the exhibitions.
No one has access to the list. And this process can take years.
An exhibition
however, in NG
“Square 500”
stir the spirits
It was advertised as “Three works by Christo from private collections”. One work was known to have been provided by Oborishte 5 Gallery, the other by Spas Rusev, an original drawing for the Surrounded Islands project. The third is from an anonymous collector. This gave food to some artists to claim that it could be owned by Vasil Bozhkov. (Otherwise he’s a fan of old Bulgarian masters and antiquities, ba)
“This is absolutely impossible,” was the reaction of NHG experts. All items were seized as physical evidence and the description process continues. Some of them, who have witnessed cases involving works of art, recall that
similar processes
Follow
5-10 g.
with numerous
evidence
NG employees just help describe the paintings, take shifts, requiring a valuable resource from the already small staff tasked with this task. They are kept in sanitary landfills under the same conditions as the other exhibits of the national institution and none can be taken from there.
“Currently, the information on the Trakia Foundation’s collection is subject to verification by the investigating authorities,” he added. was the laconic response of the Ministry of Culture when we asked them if it was possible for his objects to enter an exhibition.
An exhibition is held only when a contract is concluded with the owners of the paintings, insurance is taken out and many more details. In 10-15 years, the research cases may end and we will see something from the Bozhkov Collection, but even this is a very optimistic term, experts from the National Gallery say.
As we have not seen so far, CCB’s paintings, collected 6 years ago, provide an example of art criticism. Instead
to collections
Bozhkov has
two fancy
catalog with
magnificent
Photos,
work of the best Bulgarian connoisseurs of both antiques and classics of Bulgarian painting.
According to the Trakia Foundation, “any transport and manipulation of objects without complying with the strict international standards for the treatment of cultural property would lead to their damage or destruction. In the hypothetical illegal transport of an object from the collection of more than 3000 archaeological materials in the collection, a passport must be prepared for it, its condition must be described bilaterally by experts, and a special package with a unique “bed” must be made. in the shape of the specific object. The packed item should be placed in a hermetically sealed fireproof container, which should remain in the air conditioning room for at least 24 hours before being removed. State museums do not have such a large number of containers and such packaging has not been done. This is an enormous resource to be provided by the institutions involved. “
The Office of the Prosecutor has repeatedly assured that the seizure of the items described is carried out in strict compliance with all the regulations, as well as the international practices established for the packaging, transport and storage of the artifacts in order to maximize their authenticity.
“Each item is described in detail, photographed and packaged by NIM experts and restorers, and then transported and stored at the NIM and NHG facilities,” said the Special Prosecutor’s Office some time ago.
“We want to pay attention to another important case on which none of the authorities has ruled so far: the insurance of the items in the collection. The moment an object is removed from the Vasil Bozhkov Museum building, its insurance is no longer valid. For this, it is necessary that each issue is evaluated by expert insurers. By way of comparison, we provide insurance for the 62 objects that participated in our last exhibition, whose insurance at the time of their relocation amounted to millions of euros, ”the Trakia Foundation recently commented.
Now your phone is not responding. Professor Inkova, an expert in metal restoration, and foundation president Kiril Hristoskov were not available for comment.
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