Medvedev supported the idea of ​​keeping officials in Russia

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev believes that Russian officials should store money in domestic banks, sharing the danger of financial risks with all over the country , RIA Novosti website reports.

“They must store money in their country and share risks with it,” the prime minister said on Wednesday at a meeting with the United Russia party.

At the same time, Dmitry Medvedev considers it senseless to introduce the ban on officials to have real estate abroad. Instead, he proposed to go in a different direction - to declare income and a number of expenses of officials.

On June 5, 2012, the State Duma at the plenary meeting considered the draft law on monitoring the costs of officials in the first reading. The bill prohibits civil servants of all levels to have real estate abroad and open accounts in foreign banks, sanctions for its violation may amount to 10 million rubles of a fine or up to five years in prison. A week ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he considers it possible to introduce restrictions for officials for owning foreign real estate and accounts abroad. Such measures, in his opinion, to some extent will contribute to the fight against corruption.