Today YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin have sent an appeal
to the Public Prosecutor Generals office asking to check
whether there was a conflict of interests in the recent meeting
between President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin, and Italian citizen and businessman Silvio Berlusconi.
Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Silvio
Berlusconi on March 8-9. It should be also noted that ex Prime
Minister of Italy is under investigation in Italy for a number
of criminal cases related to corruption. Also he does not
occupy any government post at present and is a private person
- a billionaire and owner of the FinInvest financial holding.
"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.
Also in contrast to the normal practices, the Presidents
and the Prime Ministers web-sites did not give any details
of the meeting simply reporting that the meeting did take
place. This can provide an additional reason to suspect corruption
between Berlusconi, Putin and Medvedev, Mitrokhin stressed.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Corruption
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