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Press release, 17.10.2000

Yabloko faction completed collection of signatures required for their petition to the Accounting Chamber of the RF on an audit into the use of federal budget funds by the government of the Kalmykia Republic in 1998-2000

The Yabloko faction finished collecting the signatures it required for the petition filed with the Audit Chamber of the RF to audit for the third time since 1998 the use of federal budget funds by the government of Kalmykia Republic in 1998-2000. The petition of the deputies will be sent to the Audit Chamber on October 17, 2000.

The deputies state in the petition their that the lack of control over the use of federal budget funds “makes it possible for the leadership of Kalmykia to freely and unaccountably dispose of budget funds, use them inappropriately, and creates the requisite conditions for theft and arouses serious social tension in the republic.”

The deputies request that the Audit Chamber pay special attention to the appropriate use of federal budget funds in 1998-2000 in the Republic of Kalmykia by the state enterprise “The Agency for Development and Co-operation, under the President of the Kalmykia Republic, by the Fund for the Programmes of the President of the Kalmykia Republic, and the use of funds allotted by the RF government to the construction of housing for residents whose homes were flooded by the Caspian Sea in 1995 and 1997, to the activity of the

Concern for the Assistance in the Formation of Khalzan, the lawfulness of the use of budget fund to build “Chess-City” and finance “Uralan” football club.

During the first audit (1998) the leadership of the republic did not allow the auditors of the Audit Chamber to inspect the financial structures of

Kalmykia. Similarly the second audit (1998) was not conducted in full, as the requisite documents were destroyed.

Pursuant to the law on the Audit Chamber, 95 signatures of the deputies of the Duma are required to instigate an audit. The collection of signatures, entrusted by the Yabloko faction entrusted to its deputy Valeri Ostanin, was performed on October 11-13. Representatives from all the factions of the Duma signed the document. The audit should be conducted before January 1, 2001.