Member of the Federation Council from Chuvashia Lebedev ahead of schedule

Member of the Federation Council from Chuvashia Leonid Lebedev ahead of schedule lures the powers. This was stated by the head of the Commission on the reliability of information on income, property and property obligations, the vice-speaker of the upper house Yuri Vorobyov, TASS reports .

Earlier, the Commission of the Council for Monitoring the reliability of the information presented in the declarations of senators aroused the verification of Lebedev for the reliability of the information about income indicated by him.

"Due to the fact that a member of the Federation Council Leonid Lebedev wrote a statement about early reservation, I propose to check and transfer all cases to the regulation committee," Vorobyov said.

In early April, Izvestia reported that the Federation Council Commission received a request from the Presidential Directorate on Countering Corruption. After that, the commission decided to once again check the senator declaration. What kind of shortcomings were found in Lebedev’s declaration was not specified.

Lebedev then told RIA Novosti that the query data are based on falsifications, the purpose of which is to exert pressure on him and discredit his name. He noted that he was ready to provide the commissions with all the necessary documents, on the basis of which you can conduct a comprehensive audit.

“It seems to me that the information that formed the receipt of the request received from a biased source, interested in discrediting my name and putting pressure on me. I will not make assumptions about who is worth it, but I note that I have been faced with attempts to discredit me recently quite often: for example, some kind of ill-wishers have sent an anonymous letter with false information about me of the largest information about me. German media, ”said Lebedev.

Lebedev took the seventh line in the Forbes list "Declaration-2015: 20 richest families of the Federation Council." His income in 2014 amounted to 97.202 million rubles. The senator owns 10 apartments in Russia, land plots and a whole fleet of luxurious foreign cars and rare Russian cars.

In 2013, seven members of the Federation Council immediately announced the resolution of authority. Some of them made such a decision after the ban on deputies and senators have foreign accounts. Vitaly Malkin, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs , submitted an application for voluntary reservation after accusations of dual citizenship and ownership of undeclared property abroad.