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Unicorn Vladimir Pekhtin sacrificed his mandate for the sake of the party and real estate

On Wednesday, at the plenary meeting of the State Duma, the deputy from United Russia Vladimir Pekhtin announced the voluntary reservation of deputy powers. “I pass my mandate, which I always sought in an honest political struggle,” he said from the Duma rostrum ...

On Wednesday, at the plenary meeting of the State Duma, the deputy from United Russia Vladimir Pekhtin announced the voluntary reservation of deputy powers. “I pass my mandate, which I always sought in an honest political struggle,” he said from the Duma tribune.

The parliamentarian of the last four convocations argued his decision with an unwillingness to throw the shadow of unreasonable accusations of the party. “I have nothing to blame myself for my voters in Arkhangelsk and in the Far East, but I will not give unscrupulous opponents to defeat the reputation of“ United Russia ”. The interests of voters and parties are more important to me. And I will be a delay of my honest name, you can have no doubt about it, ”he said, optimistically concluding that he would still be.

Pekhtin’s decision was met by colleagues in the workshop with loud applause, standing. State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin thanked the one -party man for an “honest and responsible” act. “A great solution, a very noble act,” said Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the LDPR. Vyacheslav Timchenko, deputy head of the State Duma, called a self -sacrifice by the deputy of the “real, male, civilian act”, and Pekhtin himself, who never hid behind his comrades. “They beat on the most faithful, most reliable our comrades. But the party learned to hold a blow. With such people in our ranks as Vladimir Pekhtin, we simply cannot lose, ”he concluded. The head of the faction Vladimir Vasiliev specified that Pekhtin took a vacation. The deputy will go to the United States in order to prove in the legislative field that he has no property on its territory.

“In fairness, it must be admitted that such an act of Pekhtin shows that somewhere deeply inside him the remains of conscience have been preserved.

Maybe the rest of the United Russia felt this and therefore appointed him to the ethics commission? " - wrote a member of the coordination council of the opposition (KS) Alexei Navalny in his living magazine, adding that tomorrow all the necessary documents in the “Pekhtin case” will arrive in Moscow. Recall that it was he (in cooperation with the DOCT-Z blogger) that was the initiator of the scandal around the deputy American real estate.

Last week, Pekhtin left the post of chairman of the Commission on Deputy Ethics, which has been occupied since 2012 (in the Duma Pekhtin since 1999). He made the decision to suspend his powers before the completion of verification measures after Navalny published documents on the network confirming the presence of undeclared real estate in the United States. The blogger is sure that the deputy, together with his son Alexei, who is his official assistant, owns two apartments in Miami Beach with a total cost of about two million dollars, as well as a site with a house and a basin in Florida worth more than 400 thousand dollars.

Pekhtin himself denies the accusations against him. First, on February 12, in an interview with Izvestia, he stated that he had “practically no” real estate abroad. Then, on the same day, but the deputy has already given an interfax more categorical answer: “The allegations that my son and my son are co -owners of several apartments in the United States are not true. I have no real estate abroad. ” Nevertheless, in a statement addressed to the State Duma speaker of February 13, Pekhtin admitted that the real estate mentioned in the press belongs to his son, who, even before his election, went to study in the United States in 1998.

However, the opposition critic Pekhtin had previously fallen. In August last year, just Russians Dmitry Gudkov and Ilya Ponomarev included him in the list of “golden crucibles”-deputies who are illegally engaged in business activities, for not declaring one of the purchased land in St. Petersburg on the alleged path of the highway No. 7 (presumably for the subsequent resold the state), and his wife-two residential At home in the village of Fox Nos.

The example of Pakhtin not only caused universal respect among colleagues, but also inspired them to voluntary and timely departure from the Duma. The glory of the “hero of the day” was shared by the unicorn Anatoly Lomakin, who, following Pekhtin, decided to pass his mandate in order to “heal”. The billionaire, who met in the Duma for less than six months (he received his mandate in August 2012), submitted an appropriate application to the regulation committee. The issue of early termination of powers of the deputy may be resolved on Friday, February 22.

In 2012, Forbes estimated Lomakin's condition at $ 1.2 billion (79th place in the list of richest Russian businessmen). He built a successful business in the 90s, when he created and headed an international potassium company, uniting the largest producers of potassium fertilizers. Before sitting in the deputy’s chair, Lomakin received a warning from the secretary of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Nikolai Konkin that after receiving the mandate he will have to stop doing business. Apparently, the parliamentarian, whose health suddenly worsened in the midst of the “anti -corruption campaign”, counted its very immodest savings and made a choice in favor of them. The declaration of Lomakin's income on the State Duma website is not submitted.

This is not the first time that the deputies prematurely lure their powers. In October last year, the State Duma left another Golden Crendel from United Russia Alexei Knyshov, whose bloggers found a business abroad.

On Tuesday, a member of the budget committee and taxes Vasily Tolstopyatov left the State Duma. The leadership of United Russia explained the deputy’s act by a profitable offer that came to him from a “serious company”. The deputy from Fair Russia Dmitry Gudkov suggested that the United Russia passed his mandate due to the entry into the list of Golden Bo deel.

Since the bill on the ban on officials to have accounts in foreign banks, which Vladimir Putin was submitted to the parliament, will be adopted, we will in the near future become witnesses to the outcome of another number of people's deputies. The deputies of the “Krendels” have to make a choice between accounts/real estate abroad and the Motherland, which they so zealously protect in the State Duma from foreign influence.