
The ex-deputy of the State Duma, United Russia, Vladimir Pekhtin, said that he was satisfied with the three-month work carried out by him and experts in connection with the information that appeared in the media that he allegedly owns real estate in the United States. Now Pekhtin intends to defend his honor and get moral satisfaction.
“I am satisfied with almost three -month work and the result of what I did. All conclusions are, everything is. What do you think, what my further actions? Of course, first of all to protect my honor and get moral satisfaction,” Pekhtin said at a press conference on Friday in RIA Novosti .
- Pekhtin was going to return to the State Duma
Pekhtin noted that he spent almost two weeks in the United States and turned to the American legal service of Richman Greer to obtain a conclusion, as well as the Institute of State and the Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the expert on international private law, Alexander Minakov, who analyzed all available documents, there is no reason to say that Pekhtin acquired the ownership of real estate in the United States.
Pekhtin also said that when he traveled to the United States to conduct research on documents published by the blogger Alexei Navalny, he stayed with his son's friends. “I stayed at their home, because the real estate that is (son) is listed, people live in it, so it was impossible to stop there,” the unicorn said, adding that he lived in a hotel for several days. Pekhtin also said that he did not know the cost of the house that his son acquired. "I am the only one know that he took a loan for 120 thousand dollars," Pekhtin said.
Minakov, commenting on documents from American real estate registers published by Navalny, said that, although they at first glance “murderous”, but, according to the law of Florida, they do not prove that Vladimir Pekhtin had the ownership of these property. Details of this ornate and diluted with numerous historical excursions of argumentation can be found from the video
Speech by Pekhtin and Minakov.
Recall that in February, Alexei Navalny wrote on his blog that the head of the Duma ethics commission Pekhtin owns undeclared real estate in Florida.
Pekhtin first stated that he had practically no real estate abroad. At the end of February, he voluntarily
He handed over the mandate , while rejecting all the charges against him and said that he intended to defend his name.
Then Pekhtin stated that he would fly to the States to prove that the real estate that is there does not belong to him. Pekhtin claims that real estate in the USA is the property of his son, and due to the features of American law, the son entered him as a possible successor for unforeseen cases.
Not everyone clarifies
However, bloggers then discovered new compromising documents. Alexei Navalny posted fresh American extracts from registers signed by Vladimir Pekhtin, according to which the United Russia issued a gift to his share in all three property attributed to him in Florida for his son.
It is curious that Pekhtin, answering at the end of the press conference to the question of the reporter of Kommersant, said that he had learned that his son rewritten anything on him, only after the scandal raised by Navalny in February. Thus, so far the origin of the signature of Vladimir Pekhtin on the gift of December 28, 2012, also published by bloggers, remains mysterious.