Public Prosecutor General's Office refused to investigate
whether there was a conflict of interests in the March meeting
between President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin and Italian citizen and businessman Silvio Berlusconi.
Mr.V.Volkov, Asistant to Public Prosecutor General, informed
(in the response to the inquiry by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin)
that President and Prime Minister can not be subject to the
prosecutor's investigation. This contradicts the Law "On
Public Prosecutor's Office", and YABLOKO is preparing
a lawsuit.
The meeting between Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin and Silvio
Berlusconi took place on March 8-9, 2012. It should be noted
that ex Prime Minister of Italy was under investigation in
Italy for a number of criminal cases related to corruption.
In March 2012 he did not take any state post and was a private
person - a billionaire and owner of the FinInvest financial
holding company.
Despite of the usual practices the Presidents and the Prime
Ministers web-sites did not specify the purpose of the visit
reducing the information to stating of the fact of the meeting.
This could present an additional reason to suspect corruption
between Berlusconi, Putin and Medvedev, Mitrokhin wrote in
his inquiry to the Public Prosecutor General.
"The country's leaders emphasize their exclusive relationship
with a representative of foreign business which may indicate
presence of illegal relations there," runs Mitrokhins
letter.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Corruption
Sergei
Mitrokhin asks Public Prosecutor General to investigate the
aims and goals of the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry
Medvedev with Silvio Berluskoni. Press Release, March 12,
2012
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