Komleva Gabriela Trofimovna

Komleva Gabriela Trofimovna

Biography

2025: Loss of 9 million rubles due to fraudsters

On February 7, 2025, it became known that the Soviet ballerina, choreographer-tutor of the Mariinsky Theater Gabriela Komleva became a victim of telephone scammers. The attackers lured more than 9 million rubles from the People's Artist of the USSR.

According to TASS, the incident occurred at the end of 2024: according to Komleva, from September to November she was named by an unknown person, posing as an FSB officer. He reported that unidentified persons are trying to commit fraudulent actions against a woman. Under the pretext of protecting funds, the attacker convinced the artist to transfer 9.1 million rubles to a certain man. At the end of November 2024, the ballerina met with him at the monument to the composer Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg at the corner of Glinka and Decembrists streets and gave the money.

Komleva contacted the police only on February 6, 2025. The criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale. Such acts are punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years with a fine of up to 1 million rubles or in the amount of the convict's salary or other income for a period of up to three years.

Komleva was born on December 27, 1938 in Leningrad. In 1957 she graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School (Academy of Russian Ballet named after A.Ya. Vaganova). From 1957 to 1988 she was an artist of the ballet troupe of the Leningrad State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after S.M. Kirov (State Academic Mariinsky Theater). In 1984 she graduated from the choreographer department of the Leningrad Conservatory. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov. Komleva performed in the parts of the classical repertoire - Sylphide, Gisele and Raymond in ballets of the same name, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Kitri in Don Quixote^[1]

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