YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin said that the decision
of the Commission of the State Duma which had considered the
cases of MP engaged in businesses during their term demonstrated
double standards.
On September 20, the Commission for Control over Reliability
of Information for MPs Incomes listened to the cases of five
MPs from the ruling United Russia faction: Vladimslav Reznik,
Adam Delimkhanov, Oleg Lebedev, Ivan Demchenko and Andrei
Skotch. The investigation had been made on YABLOKOs initiative.
It turned out that the Commission had questions to only
one MP Andrei Skotch. His case will be considered at the
next meeting of the Commission.
The Commission did not find any grounds for launching an
investigation on the four deputies. However, YABLOKO had
laid claims to three of the MPs Demchenko, Reznik and Lebedev
the same as the claims laid by the Duma to oppositional
MP Gennady Gudkov.
The Duma decided that MPs can set up new businesses during
their term, however, they are not allowed to change directors
of these companies (Ed. Gennady Gudkov was deprived of his
mandate exactly for voting for a new director of a company
set up before his term of office). This is a clear manifestation
of double standards, Mitrokhin noted.
Also Mitrokhin reiterated that he had forwarded a new inquiry
to the Investigative Committee demanding to conduct an audit
on the MPs who owned or had a share in companies that had
replaced their directors until December 2011.
This inquiry will make it more difficult for the State Duma
to demonstrate its double standards. If the Investigative
Committee conducts a careful investigation, than the circumstances
of violations demonstrated by the United Russia deputies will
not differ from the Gudkov case at all, Mitrokhin said.
YABLOKO forwarded inquiries on Delimkhanov and Skotch as
early as in April 2012, long before the Gudkov case.
YABLOKO asked to launch an investigation on Adam Delimkhanov
in April 2012. this MP demonstrated an all of a sudden rise
of incomes of his family members. His spouse bought two flats
in Russia (148 sq m and 406 sq m) and a Mercedes-Benz-211.
However, Delimkhanovs income was under 2 mln roubles a year,
and that of his spouse under 200,000 roubles in 2011, she
declared no income for 2010 and 2009. Also Delimkhanov has
never had any business.
An inquiry on Adrei Skotch was filed in July 2012. A person
from the Forbes list did not possess any property or income
as of his official income statement. Skotch explained this
discrepancy between the declared and the real property by
transferring his business to his father. He also added that
he lived as a dependant of his father. YABLOKO insisted that
Skotch had to declare the assets allocated to him by his father.
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