Pekhtin leaves the post of head of the ethics commission

The head of the State Duma Commission on Deputy Ethics, Vladimir Pekhtin, wrote a statement on the suspension of his powers, Echo Moscow reports with reference to the press service of the United Russia faction. "In connection with the information that has appeared in a number of media outlets, I consider it important to contact the Chairman of the Chamber with a request to suspend my powers of the Chairman of the Duma Ethics Commission before the completion of verification events," the statement of the speaker Sergei Naryshkin, considered it important to suspend my powers.

At the same time, Pekhtin notes that "never had and has no property in the United States." "The real estate mentioned in the press belongs to my son Alexei, who, even before my deputy, went to study in the United States in 1998, where he got the opportunity to work and has property," the statement said.

The day before, civil activist Alexei Navalny published the data that Pekhtin has possessions in Russia, in addition to undeclared land plots in Russia. So, "On November 1, 2007, Alexei Pekhtin (son of Vladimir Pekhtin) buys apartments in Miami Beach (Florida) in the elite residential complex Flamingo South Beach" for 540 thousand dollars. On August 4, the uninterosoros deputy Pekhtin issued half of this beautiful apartment in Miami property, ”Navalny writes.

According to him, the deputy did not indicate this property in any of the declarations. "On April 4, 2012, the pichts together bought apartments in an elite residential complex of 1500 Ocean Drive (all the same Miami Beach, Florida). The cost is calculated on the same principle as the previous apartment is $ 1.275 million. The address of the house is 1500 Ocean DR, Miami Beach, FL," writes Navalny, attaching Photo of the deputy property.

Navalny sent requests for the verification of the facts he had stated in the general prosecutor Yuri Chaika and the State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin. In addition, Navalny turned to the chairman of United Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the State Duma faction Vladimir Vasiliev and the Presidium of the Secretary General with a proposal to exclude Pykhtin from the party.

In an interview with Izvestia, Pekhtin denied Navalny's statements. “I don’t know what he found there and what he writes, and I have nothing more to comment on. And my son really studied there, he has the relevant documents,” said Pekhtin. At the same time, Pekhtin "suggested" that his son may have real estate in the United States. "I think he has something, he studied there, and he has a wife there. Now she lives with him in Russia."

In December, Navalny published information on the blog that the daughters of the deputy of the unorosa Sergey Zheleznyak were studying abroad in prestigious educational institutions. Navalny estimated that only the training of two daughters abroad costs a iron yield of 4.3 million rubles a year, while his official income for 2011 amounted to 3.5 million rubles.

In response, Zheleznyak said that his senior daughters graduated from nine classes of the school in Moscow, after which they themselves chose educational institutions in which they wanted to continue their education. “I don’t see anything bad and nonpatriotic in this, they will receive an education, come home and will be useful to the country in the quality in which they want,” Zheleznyak wrote.

Zheleznyak also published a certificate from the tax that in 2007 he earned more than 100 million rubles. “In my opinion, enough to ensure the well -being of my family and teaching children,” he wrote.