Malkin leaves the Federation Council

Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council for International Affairs Vitaly Malkin submitted an application for voluntary reservation. It was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the Upper Chamber Committee on the Rules Vadim Tulip. Malkin is accused of dual citizenship and ownership of non -detective property abroad.

Malkin asks him to release him from senatorial powers from March 25. "Senator Malkin filed an application for early care - it is very sad, but this is so," Tulpanov said at a meeting of the committee.

On Monday, the vice speaker of the upper house Yuri Vorobyov denied the Izvestia, which appeared in Izvestia with reference to him about the upcoming consideration by the Commission of the Council of Council Malkin. The senator may lose the mandate at the end of May, the newspaper wrote. In the field, the publication approved, documents with evidence of dual citizenship of Malkin have already received.

Earlier, the speaker of the upper house Valentina Matvienko said that if the charges against Malkin are confirmed, then he will have to leave the upper house. "Conductors, senators, deputies do not have the right to be citizens of a foreign state even from an ethical point of view," she told reporters during the official visit of the Czech Republic delegation to the Czech Republic.

On March 19, the Federation Council received an official request from the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper demanding that Malkin’s information about foreign real estate and second citizenship be verified. Press Secretary Matvienko Natalia Fomenko said that the request "will be considered in accordance with the regulations." For this, a two -month period is set.

Earlier, the Federation Council did not consider the appeal on this subject Alexei Navalny, referring to the regulations. They stated that Navalny "is not one of the subjects" who have the right to apply with an official request. However, such a right is, in particular, among the All -Russian media.

On March 14, Navalny published scans of documents confirming Malkin's citizenship of Russia and Israel and undeclared real estate abroad. According to published documents, the senator owns an apartment building in Canada, which does not appear in his property declaration. Malkin then denied the information that he has double citizenship.

Last week, new information about the foreign property of Malkin appeared. He found a land plot of 500 hectares on Corsica, MK reported. Blogger Andrei Malgin published information about two firms belonging to Malkin in Luxembourg and real estate in New York.

On Monday, a member of the SF Boris Spiegel sent an application for early authority to the Committee of the upper house in the regulations. He explained his decision by the fact that in November last year I was elected president of the international human rights organization "World without Nazism". In accordance with current legislation, the parliamentarian cannot occupy the position of head of such an organization.

In July 2012, the mother of Sergei Magnitsky accused Malkina and his three colleagues slander her son. Malkin, at the head of the group of Russian senators, presented to American colleagues a report based on the results of a parliamentary investigation of Magnitsky’s case. He stated that Magnitsky was arrested legally and died due to the slope of the prison doctor. "Magnitsky was 37 years old. When a person at such a young age says that his stomach hurts, it was not taken seriously. He drank, was an unsportsmanlike person. The doctor did not see that he had pancreatitis. The examination says that he had abrasions, but he died not from them, but from pancreatitis," Malkin said at a press conference at the Russian embassy.