President and Government members submitted income declarations

The President of Russia, the heads of the Kremlin administration and members of the government submitted a declaration of their income and expenses, RIA Novosti reports.

According to the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov, the declarations are already submitted and the necessary verification will be held. He also noted that, according to him, no violations, for example, have no accounts in foreign banks, have not yet been discovered.

The law obliging members of the Government to submit to the tax authorities information about their earnings, income of spouses and minor children has been in force since 2008. A year later, similar rules were introduced against the head of state and the most senior members of the presidential administration. From last year, officials should, among other things, also report on expenses.

Since 2014, the declarations will be checked by the president’s management to counteract corruption, which was created in 2013.

Last year, the declarations of expenses were filed by 14,400 Russian officials. According to reports, the Kremlin checked 9,500 declarations of high -ranking persons, and eight people were dismissed as a result. In total, 300 officials lost their work with the formulation “due to the loss of confidence”, another 500 candidates for the occupying of appropriate posts were refused.