The deputy Mikheev found debts for 5 billion rubles

60 senior Russian officials, including eight members of the Federation Council, governors and government members, three heads of departments, two employees of the presidential administration and four dozen deputies, have debts to the state and creditors. Together, according to the information of the data bank, they owed 10.4 billion rubles, RBC calculated .

The champion among debtors was the deputy from the Fair Russia faction Oleg Mikheev: it accounts for 5.4 billion rubles, that is, more than half of the total debt. As RBC found out, they expect loans, state fees and other fees from the deputy. Earlier, Mikheev explained that his debt was formed due to personal guarantee on the obligations of his company-the Volgograd Holding "Diamant". The non -partisan senator from Tatarstan Vagiz Mingazov called a similar reason, the total debt of which, according to the estimates of the publication, reached 4.3 billion rubles. In third place by the amount of debt by a large margin, a deputy from Fair Russia, who did not have time to pay more than 640 million rubles on loans, is the deputy.

Against Oleg Mikheev in March 2013, the Investigative Committee opened three criminal cases at once: he was charged with attempt on fraud, fraud on an especially large scale and pressure on the court. In May 2014, the latter was discontinued , and the investigation of the case of attempted theft by fraud 2.1 billion rubles from Promsvyazbank, the SK announced the completed . In February last year, the Duma deprived Mikheev deputy inviolability.

In two of the 60 high -ranking debtors, RBC found an individual entrepreneur, although the law prohibits officials to engage in business. According to the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs, there are individual entrepreneurs formalized to the State Duma deputies Alexander Balberov (LDPR) and Umakhan Umakhanov (United Russia). Nevertheless, both deputies announced to reporters that their individual entrepreneurs were closed several years ago.

At the end of May, the director of the Federal Bailiff Service, Arthur Parfenchikov, announced the “billionth debt” of a number of members of the Federation Council. He did not name the names.

“An official with unpaid debts - he a priori cannot be an independent official not only morally. If we talk about any corruption risks, then the first corruption risk is when the official has a bunch of debts, ” Parfenchikov said .

The deputy Mikheev found debts for 5 billion rubles

At the end of May, the director of the Federal Bailiff Service, Arthur Parfenchikov, announced the “billionth debt” of a number of members of the Federation Council. He did not name the names.

“An official with unpaid debts - he a priori cannot be an independent official not only morally. If we talk about any corruption risks, then the first corruption risk is when the official has a bunch of debts, ” Parfenchikov said .