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Deputy Pekhtin surrendered mandate and travels to the USA
Photo: ITAR-TASSThe State Duma deputy from the United Russia faction voluntarily abandoned the mandate after a revealing post in the LJ of Alexei Navalny. Vladimir Pekhtin announced his intention to leave the Duma at a meeting on Wednesday February 20.
"I pass the mandate that I have always sought in an honest political struggle," said Pekhtin.
On February 13, Pekhtin resigned the powers of the head of the State Duma in deputy ethics. "In connection with the information that 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 until the completion of verification events," the deputy wrote in a letter to the chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin,
Earlier, Alexei Navalny, in his live magazine , posted information that Pekhtin, together with his son Alexei, owns two apartments in Miami Beach and a house with a plot in Florida with a total value of more than $ 2 million. According to Navalny, real estate was acquired after Pekhtin became a deputy in 1999. In addition, Pekhtin’s foreign real estate was not declared anywhere in Russia.
At first, Pekhtin denied the ownership of American real estate, then he said that his son owns houses, and on February 20, officially abandoned the mandate.
This was followed by the first reaction of officials. State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin thanked Pekhtin for the refusal of the mandate. "Vladimir Alekseevich, thank you very much for an honest and responsible act," said Naryshkin, turning to Pekhtin after he announced the addition of authority.
| How Pekhtin talked about his real estate |
| February 12 at 15:18 Izvestia newspaper published an interview with Vladmiry Pekhtin about real estate and Navalny's post. “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 (in the USA), he has the relevant documents,” said Pekhtin. When asked whether Navalny lies, claiming that he has real estate in the United States, Pekhtin replied: "Apparently, yes." And to the control question, whether the deputy of the house abroad still has, Pekhtin said: "Well, there is practically nothing." As for his son, the deputy very evasively spoke about his property abroad. “I think he has something, he studied there and he has a wife there,” said Pekhtin. |
| February 12 22:55 : Vladimir Pekhtin gave an interview to the Internet publication Slon . In a conversation with the journalist Slon, Pekhtin again spoke about real estate abroad. If on the afternoon of February 12 he “practically did not have houses abroad, then in the evening of the same day, Pechtin, according to him,“ in fact, does not belong to me there. ” However, Pekhtin said with confidence that "everything belongs to his son." “It is not only on paper, but also in fact. What is written in the registry, I don’t know, I saw it for the first time just now. In fact, when some transactions were made, perhaps the son wrote something, he is an adult, has been doing his business there and lives there since I was not a deputy, you understand,” the deputy said. As for Navalny, Pekhtin was going to find out a relationship in court with him. “Frankly, my hands are itching. Although I have one principle - I don’t react to such slopes. Everything is dumped there, you won’t understand it - either you stole it, or you have stolen it, he uses it skillfully. In fact, it is necessary to teach him, so I think that we will first figure it out, and then I sued the court,” shared the only unit. |
| On February 20, at 10:30, Vladimir Pekhtin spoke at a meeting of the State Duma : "I pass the mandate that I have always sought in an honest political struggle." |
To top it off, from the head of the United Russia faction, Vladimir Vasiliev, it became known that deputy Pekhtin took a vacation and was going to the United States. True, not to visit his son, but to prove: he does not have real estate there.
| Bloggers held a deputy of Pekhtin in Miami |
Alexander Khinshtein : "Today, V. Pekkhtin has resigned his deputy powers. I believe that he acted courageously and correctly." "United Russia" : "Timchenko:" Pekhtin never hid behind the backs of his comrades. " Vladimir soloviev : “It is ridiculous that the investigation of doct-z is attributed to Navalny, as before that he was attributed to Hinstein’s investigation on Bastrykin. It is obvious that the main beneficiary from Pakhtin’s resignation is Navalny” Gennady Gudkov : "A living caricature for all power is leaving the state department!" Andrei Malgin : "Well, now, now the shadow on the batch of crooks and thieves does not fall. Without Pekhtin, only crystal clean people are now left there" Tikhon Dzyadko : "Pekhtin passed the mandate and with a cry:" In Miami, in Miami! "He left the plenary meeting hall" Ilya Yashin : “Claims to Pekhtin are unfounded,” said the EP, taking away the mandate from him. “Serdyukov is not a thief,” Putin said, resigning him. " Vladimir Bartholomeev : "And when is the new elections in the district in Miami now? Marat Gelman : "Pekhtin's departure is a very good sign for us all. On many points" Andrei Kozenko : "Moreover, he is an orthodox unicorn, ideological. And they leaked in six seconds. Doil fellow lessons, Che." |