YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded a letter to
the Investigation Committee and the State Duma on eight more
deputies who created new businesses or increased their shares
in the existing businesses during their term in the parliament.
Mitrokhin asks the Committee and the Duma to consider the
issues of depriving these MPs of their mandates.
In late August YABLOKO published the first results of its
investigation of whether Russian MPs establish businesses
(which is prohibited for MPs by the Russian law). Then it
included 13 members of the ruling United Russia faction in
the State Duma. All of them, as Mr. Gennady Gudkov, after
their election entered boards of different companies. Here
come their names: Grigory Anikeyev, Nikolai Bortzov, Ivan
Demchenko, Alexander Karelin, Oleg Kolesnikov, Vladimir Pligin,
Vladislav Reznik, Gadzhimet Safaraliev, Leonid Simanovsky,
Vasily Tolstopyatov, Airat Khairullin, Alexander Shishkin
and Valery Yazev. They are all members of the United Russia
faction.
"In total, we detected such violations
on 21 deputies and Dmitry Gudkov [MP and son of Gennadi
Gudkov] for ten more deputies, 29 deputies in total, Mitrokhin
said.
"The authorities accuse Gennady Gudkov of acquiring
a business when he was an MP. They say that an MP can not
be represented on the board of a commercial organization.
However, if one gets a share in a open liability company,
he or she can not avoid it, - Mitrokhin wrote in his blog.
- If an MP has run such a business for a long time, and he
promptly gave it in trust, than [head of Russian Investigation
Committee] Bastrykin considers that such a person has not
violated the law.
"I think that such an interpretation of the law seems
too broad. Perhaps it would be wise to clarify the requirements
of the law first, and after punish deputies. But one thing
is clear: if Gudkov is deprived of his mandate, than United
Russia MPs must follow. Otherwise it is a selective enforcement
of the law, " Mitrokhin concluded.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Corruption
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