This investigation is dedicated to regional cinema chain “Charly” and stand-along movie theater “Bolshoi”, which are involved in showing of stolen Hollywood content. It shows up that not only federal cinema chains, but small cinema chains and regional theaters involved to criminal piracy industry.
Charly cinema chain (
www.kinocharly.ru) has its head office in Rostov-on-Don. The cinema chain does not hide the fact that it carries out piracy activities - tickets for stolen films are sold on the website of the cinema chain. At the same time, at least two owners of the cinema chain constantly travel abroad. In Europe and the UK, their assets are registered on the name of their children - real estate, cars and even some businesses.
“Bolshoi” movie theater (
www.bolshoikino.ru) also situated in Rostov-on-Don. However, the sale of tickets for stolen films is organized through the virtual cinema “FreeTownCinema” (www.freetowncinema.ru). Probably to the usage of such an umbrella brand is concerned with the fact that the owner of the cinema also has an amount of assets abroad, registered on the name of his family members - his wife and older sons