March 21, 2011, 10:32 Politics

The president's accuser has died

State Duma deputy Viktor Ilyukhin died

“Gazeta.Ru” On Saturday, one of the most famous Russian deputies, former accuser of Mikhail Gorbachev, initiator of the impeachment of Boris Yeltsin, Viktor Ilyukhin, died suddenly. The leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has questioned the official cause of death - a heart attack - and insists on conducting an investigation. Preliminary results of the investigation confirmed a massive heart attack.

deputy State Duma , deputy chairman of the State Building Committee Viktor Ilyukhin died at his dacha in the Zhukovsky area near Moscow. In the evening, the parliamentarian suddenly felt ill. The ambulance that was called did not have time to save him: even before the doctors arrived, the deputy died. Until last weekend, Ilyukhin did not have any health problems, his colleagues say. The Gazeta.Ru correspondent, who last spoke with the deputy last Thursday, confirms that the interlocutor was traditionally full of strength and plans.

Ilyukhin’s faction colleague, deputy chairman of the Security Committee Alexander Kulikov told Gazeta.Ru that, according to the results of a medical examination that were received on Monday, the cause of death was a massive heart attack.

“According to the doctors’ conclusion, the preliminary cause of death was a massive heart attack, which developed over several days,” Kulikov explained. “At the same time, the investigative department of the Moscow region continues to conduct a preliminary investigation.

I hope that they will find out everything completely - it will become clear what exactly led to the development of the disease.” According to the deputy, the final results of the preliminary investigation may be known in 15 days.

Earlier, the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , headed by Gennady Zyuganov , doubted the official diagnosis and demanded an investigation into the circumstances of Ilyukhin’s death. After this, the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region announced that it had begun a pre-investigation check into the death of the State Duma deputy.

“We are raising the question of the need for a full-scale audit, not limiting ourselves to just a pre-trial investigation,” Kulikov, in turn, explained to Gazeta.Ru. “In his activities, Ilyukhin took a radical position in many circumstances, often accusing the authorities of criminal actions, based on specific facts,” says a member of the security committee.

Ilyukhin was one of the most famous politicians in the Russian State Duma. He made a name for himself in the early 90s, when, as a career prosecutor, head of the department for supervising the implementation of state security laws of the USSR Prosecutor General's Office, he opened a case against the country's President Mikhail Gorbachev “for treason to the Motherland.” True, almost immediately Ilyukhin was fired from the prosecutor's office . In 1993, the ex-prosecutor provided active support to the disgraced Supreme Council, and then was elected to the State Duma, where he headed the security committee. Since then, Ilyukhin has been regularly re-elected to new chambers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In 1998–1999, it was Ilyukhin who was the main accuser of President Boris Yeltsin in the impeachment proceedings launched by the parliamentary opposition. Then there were 17 votes short of impeachment.

However, Ilyukhin was not limited to activities accusing presidents, actively participating in the writing and adoption of key laws, such as the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes, bills concerning the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Defense . , who was killed in 1998 Ilyukhin was one of the close friends of General Lev Rokhlin and went into opposition to Yeltsin. After Rokhlin's death, he led the public Movement in support of the army. In the last convocation, the deputy moved from the Security Committee to the State Building Committee.