The fight against corruption? No, we don't want anymore!

Deputies are inhibited by the adoption of the presidential bill on monitoring the compliance of expenses and income of officials. The document was entered by Dmitry Medvedev back in April of this year. However, after the first reading on June 6, the bill is forgotten.

The State Duma took a month for collecting amendments to the bill adopted in the first reading. It was planned that all comments on the document would be collected no later than July 6, however, by October 3, even the corrections table did not appear on the website of the lower house, and the document itself has never been discussed at a meeting of the Duma Committee on Security and Countering Corruption. And the law should have turned out tough. For example, he assumed that the expenses of officials, as well as their close relatives, for the acquisition of land, real estate, expensive cars and securities will be controlled by the Prosecutor General, if their value exceeds the three -year income of the civil servant. And most importantly, if the official cannot prove the legality of the appearance of his money surplus, the property of the corrupt official will be confiscated . However, work on the document did not go beyond the first reading. Neither the leadership of the Duma committee, nor the deputies themselves answer why. The Chairman of the United Russia Security Committee Irina Yarovaya still assures that everything goes according to plan and the document is about to discuss both on the working group, and at the committee, and at the plenary meeting. “Where did you get that amendments were not provided? This week we will have an extensive discussion of this bill on Wednesday, October 3. We invite you, ”Irina Yarovaya listened. But on October 3, the Security Committee discussed only the draft budget and did not affect the fight against corruption. What amendments have already been proposed, Yarovaya refused to answer again. For the head of the legal service of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vadim Solovyov, delaying the consideration of bills is the usual practice in the lower ward: “When the bill does not like the“ United Russia ”, there are cases of looting these documents, even if the president or government introduced them. This usually takes place under the guise of a committee consultation with any state bodies. They just do not want to accept a document aimed at monitoring the costs of officials. For example, we have already introduced a similar bill 3 or 4 times, but each time the United Russia failed it. Perhaps now with this bill not everything is simple. ” The head of the National Anti -Corruption Committee Kirill Kabanov also thinks: “State Duma deputies are representatives of the ruling class, that is, bureaucracy. And what is happening with the Medvedev bill, only once again shows how the bureaucracy blocked any proposals related to counteracting the corruption business. The same thing is happening on the bill on public procurement, which has been stuck in the State Duma for more than three years. " After such a long “study” of the bill on the control of the expenses of civil servants, another anti -corruption initiative - the ban on ownership for foreign real estate officials and foreign accounts - can now also be “salted”. The document, which in the summer was made by representatives of the All -Russian Popular Front, if it reaches the final consideration in the State Duma, will most likely be significantly rewritten. The leader of the United Russia faction Andrei Vorobyov has already stated that although his party will support the bill, it will be necessary to amend him. However, this law really looks strange: what to do, for example, with foreign real estate of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets, who clearly earned it during work in Norilsk Nickel?