Bolshoi dancer confesses to acid attack on ballet's director Pavel Dmitrichenko told police he planned the attack in which sulphuric acid was thrown at Sergei Filin in January. A dancer at the Bolshoi ballet has confessed to ordering an attack on the company's director, Russian police said, in a scandal that has exposed the treacherous dramas unfolding behind the theatre's famed stage. "Yes, I organised this attack, but not to the extent that it occurred," Pavel Dmitrichenko, looking tired and unkempt, said in a video aired on television. He said he had confessed his motives to police but declined to detail them on video. Channel One, a state-run television station, said Dmitrichenko's girlfriend, ballerina Angelina Vorontsova, had clashed professionally with the ballet's director, Sergei Filin. Dmitrichenko, 28, was arrested on Tuesday by police investigating the January attack on Filin, when sulphuric acid was thrown at his face, leaving him fighting for his eyesight. Dmitrichenko's two accomplices - the attacker and a getaway driver - also confessed, police said on Wednesday. Suspected driver Andrei Lipatov said: "Yes, I was there at the time [of the attack]. I drove someone. I didn't see how it happened. I just drove him, waited, and drove him away. I was asked to do it, without explanation. Yury Zarutsky, the suspected attacker, declined to comment, in the video. Filin was returning home late on the evening of 17 January when a masked attacker threw the contents of a jar filled with sulphuric acid at his face. He suffered severe burns to his face and neck and underwent several operations to restore his eyesight and repair his skin. From the beginning, Filin, 42, insisted the attack was linked to his work at the theatre. Katerina Novikova, spokeswoman for the theatre, said on Tuesday that she knew of "no bitter rivalry" between Filin and Dmitrichenko. Dmitrichenko has been with the Bolshoi since 2002. He made a name for himself by dancing the role of villains, including the role of tsar Ivan the Terrible in the ballet of the same name and the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart in Swan Lake. The suspected attacker, 35-year-old Zarutsky, was later detained in the Tver region, about 100 miles from Moscow. Before the news of Dmitrichenko's arrest emerged, she said the theatre was "glad" that the police investigation had led to an arrest.