Press release, 05.06.2017

Natalia Poklonskaya, deputy of the State Duma and ex Public Prosecutor of Crimea, explained the reporters why she did not declare a car in her income tax statement as well as her husband’s property and income. According to Poklonskaya, she is not married and mentioned that she had a husband in mass media “not to hurt” her admirers. It was reported that she did not yet posses the car when she submitted her income declaration. This was the response Poklonskaya gave to Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, who sent a letter to the Public Prosecutor General demanding to check Poklonskaya’s statements. Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre suspects that Natalia Poklonskaya has not declared a car in her income tax statement, and also conceals her husband’s property and income.

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“It is true, I used to say that I have a wonderful family – a husband and a daughter… When I said that I was in a relationship with a man and we intended to get married. Unfortunately, we parted.Therefore I cannot mention my husband’s [income and property] in the declaration because I do not has a husband,” Poklonskaya told RIA Novosti.

She also said there was another reason for mentioning a husband. According to Poklonskaya, she said she was married and had a wonderful family not to hurt her admirers by a refusal.

As for the car, Poklonskaya noted that she had presented her father with it two years before and did not possess it when he submitted the income declaration.

However, Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre doubts the truth of her words.

“Her response is too indistinct for a fighter against corruption among opposition members and fake divorces of State Duma deputies,” Sergei Mitrokhin said.

See Yabloko’s statements Natalya Poklonskays’s income declaration