The YABLOKO party has launched a unique project: now all
the governments purchases of luxury cars can be tracked in
real time at the party website.
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin in his blog suggested a public
debate which could lead to developing a norm who of the state
servants should have a car, what the price of such a car can
be and how often such a state servant can replace the old
car be a new car.
At present yabloko.ru/auto has published information on 42
buyers of 145 luxury cars totaling RUR 1.5 bln. Last Friday,
the Presidential Administration announced that it was going
to purchase 60 BMW 7 Series, RUR 5 mln each. Also Oktabrskiy
Concert Hall in St.Petersburg is going to buy a Range Rover
for USD 5.5 mln. Among the regional authorities the most blatant
example came from penal colony 1 in the Chelyabinsk region.
They needed a Land Cruiser for RUR 3.5 mln.
Sergei Mitrokhin stressed that access to this information
had been opened due to Federal Law 94, developed by YABLOKO
activists working in the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service.
"Actually the State Duma Budget Committee should engage
in all these issues, but so far we do not have a normal parliament,
and anyone can take up this function, Sergei Mitrokhin wrote
in his blog. Also Mitrokhin proposed that anyone believing
that a state body does not need purchasing a particular car,
should write a letter to the respective state body buying
a luxury good, as the law envisages that in this case a purchase
contract can be cancelled.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Corruption
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