Chosen ones in rubles and pennies

How the declared income of deputies grew up and their hardware weight decreased - The New Times was versed

Businessmen are no longer interested in corrupt deputies - they do not make independent decisions on July 2, employees of the Investigative Committee and Special Forces of the FSB stormed the St. Petersburg branch of the City Invest Bank as part of a special operation to investigate a certain case of large -scale fraud. The security forces were interested in the documents, but in addition to the documents, they seized a bunch of cash. “One hundred kilograms of dollars,” said the Fontanka newspaper, making the famous deputy of the forefront Alexei Lysyakov. It was to him, according to investigators, that the money found in the bank belonged. Later, the deputy - without specifics - confirmed that, yes, his “property” was stored in the bank. “There is not just money, there is property, a whole composition - I could store paintings, books,” Lsyakov told TASS to the correspondent. Parliamentation denies involvement in the criminal case, due to which the bank was stormed. He suffered by accident.

By the way, 100 kg of American banknotes is about $ 7 million, or - at the rate - 350 million rubles. The declared income of the deputy Lysyakov in 2014 is 4 million 131 thousand 950 rubles. and 76 kopecks. There is no real estate, but has two expensive German cars. But the income of the deputy’s wife for the same period is 82 million rubles.

In the light, deputies of the State Duma are obliged to publish data on their income. And if, taking advantage of the online database of the “Declarator” data, which contains information about the income of several thousand public officials in the last seven years, to compare the deputy declarations in 2013 and 2014, the picture as a whole will be found that the welfare of the folk chosen ones is growing steadily.

According to declarations, only 59 deputies of the State Duma of the sixth convocation in 2014 decreased. 7 communists, 8 liberal democrats, 9 members of the Just Russia faction and 35 united Russias were impoverished. Among them, in their own way, is the chairman of the budget and tax committee Andrei Makarov and his two deputy. Everyone else has increased income.

Among the deputies, of course, there are very wealthy people - those who came to a policy from a big business and continue to receive income from assets transferred to trust. Unicorn Vladislav Reznik, a former entrepreneur, banker and insurer, earned in 2014, according to the declaration, over 375 million rubles. His colleague in the faction, the former owner of the largest manufacturer of the juices of Lebedyansky OJSC Nikolai Boardov, is 421 million rubles. Communist Sergei Muravlenko, a native of Yukos, is almost 402 million. But the income of most deputies is much more modest. On average, people's deputies earned about 3.9–4.5 million rubles per year. And yet - large real estate transactions in 2014 declarations were not recorded.

It is not known for certain how much deputies receive for their work. According to the Law on the status of a deputy, he should pay as much as they pay the federal minister (about 360 thousand rubles after the abbreviations of March 2015). At the moment, the basic reward of the deputy, established by the presidential decree, is 81,500 rubles. And the equality with ministers promised by law is achieved at the expense of “monetary rewards” and “compensation”. As a result, the deputy receives from 320 to 350 thousand. It is interesting that the deputies themselves also do not know exactly how much money they have to. “We don't know anything. One day you get 327 thousand, in the other - 347, you won’t understand how they think, ”Mikhail Emelyanov was indignant in a commentary for Gazeta.ru. It must be hoped that in mind he still had not daily, but monthly payments.

Indicated as a minimum bar 327 thousand. We multiply by 12 and get 3 million 924 thousand rubles. - The same income of most people's deputies in declarations for 2014. As you can see, the alleged owner of 100 kg of dollars Alexei Lysyakov is not knocked out of the mass of Duma middle peasants. Actually, the total increase in income compared to 2013 is just an increase in salary, taking into account payments and compensations - 161 thousand rubles, then - 250, now - over 300.

From which it follows: deputies live for one salary and in this with the people are one. True, their salary is slightly more than on average in the country (32,600 rubles in 2014, according to the Federal State Statistics Service). In addition, the deputies are laid by service apartments in Moscow, service cars in the capital and regions, free tickets for all types of transport, compensation for hotel accommodation, travel, free communication, free medical care in the best departmental clinics and trips to the sanatorium. For moving to Moscow, deputies-regions and members of their families receive additional compensation.

By the way, back in February of this year, the State Duma chairman Sergei Naryshkin invited his colleagues “to think about reducing salaries by 10%”. Nothing reliable at the moment is not known about the results of deputy thoughts.

Whatever happens in the country, the deputies are satisfied, Moscow, the State Duma, the spring of 2015 in the shade * The deputy mandate attracts not only the opportunity to believe the fate of the country and adopt laws for the good of citizens. The mandate is powers and power, that is, a chance for corruption. Work in the Duma of previous convocations gave, according to the interlocutors of NT *, a lot of ways to earn.

A specialist in corporate information wars on the terms of anonymity agreed to tell NT how the corruption services market have changed in recent years, which are ready to provide customers with individual deputies.

The easiest way to get money is to send a deputy request. According to the Law on the status of a deputy, the parliamentarian “has the right to apply to the Government of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the heads of federal executive bodies, the heads of executive bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local authorities in a circle of issues within the competence of these bodies.” In the framework of local contractions for property, a letter to the prosecutor or the governor, to which they are obliged to answer, which means, at least to conduct preliminary checks, is a big trouble for the side of the conflict, which was not concerned with the purchase of a sales legislator.

“(Deputy) request - from $ 3 thousand and higher, depending on the character’s self -esteem,” explains the interlocutor NT . - There are those who ask for $ 10 thousand, even $ 20 thousand. "

Further - worse, for potential corrupt officials worse. “There was a practice to take the deputy to raider seizures. For $ 50 thousand, they went. Now they do not carry anyone. " The sad evidence of the fall in the prestige of the legislative power - the current deputies no longer make impressions of the security forces. They can neither help nor prevent. In previous convocations, according to the media, participation in raider seizures was, for example, the main business of the LDPR faction.

Another important service is the "right to enter any door." According to the same law on the status of a deputy, officials of any level and even the military are obliged to immediately accept parliamentarians. To enter the power office in the region and if you do not resolve the issue, then at least voice, and at the same time indicate the fact of the presence of patrons in Moscow, is worth a lot. More specifically, according to the same interlocutor NT - $ 10 thousand. But here it is not all right here: recently one “charged”, that is, the deputy, the head of the regional ministry refused to accept the deputy - suggested making an appointment with an assistant.

You can also open a deputy reception in your own office. The corresponding sign acts (or should act) on the security forces, like an icon on devils: the whole office becomes inviolable, and not just the room allotted to the deputy for “meetings with citizens” (in which he, by the way, is not obliged to appear). The service is exotic, rare and expensive: the price, according to the NT source, can reach $ 100 thousand.

But in general, the market for corruption is narrowed. The deputies simply cease to pay attention to, much more important “their people” in regional administrations and power structures. To invest black cash in people's chosen ones is ineffective. “Recently I met in the office of one former partner from the Duma just in such matters,” the interlocutor NT ends his story. - And he says: "Do you want me to call you an elevator for 50 bucks?" It was he who joked: somehow it is necessary to beat off the money invested in the deputy. ”

The disappearing parliament “A decrease in corruption in the Duma is primarily associated with a simple reason: this place has ceased to be a really working platform from the point of view of the implementation of the authorities and promoting any initiatives,” said Andrei Zhvirblis, Deputy General Director of Transpensers of the Internet Russia.

The current deputy of the State Duma just -Ross Dmitry Gudkov agrees with him. Answering the NT question about whether there are now opportunities for serious lobbying actions in parliament, he says: “I don’t hear such conversations in this convocation.” And he continues, by the way, the said above: “Probably, there is some kind of trifle like raider seizures, someone ran into someone, the deputy comes, understands ... I have one good friend from whom the business was selected. I say: Come on, I'll try to help you. He says: “Dima, God forbid, firstly, you will not help me in any way, and secondly, if you now write some kind of deputy request as an opposition, it will be even worse for me.” Gudkov summarizes: “Corruption where decisions are made. The Duma does not make decisions today. Take the Committee on Economic Policy - all decisions have long been adopted in the Ministry of Economics or the Ministry of Finance, the Energy Committee - for them everyone decided in the relevant department. What is the point of paying businessmen to pay them? It is worth entering where decisions are made. To the government, for example. "

Gennady Gudkov Sr., whom the Duma of the sixth convocation deprived the deputy mandate, and the fair Russians were expelled from the party, I agree with Gudkov-Jr.. “The corruption component in the lower house, oddly enough, with the general corruption of the power system, is low. It may have individual deputies-some needs of a lobbying nature, which, as a rule, are not very highly quoted. Therefore, the State Duma is unpopular among the business community, ”said Gennady Gudkov NT .

One could rejoice-at least somewhere they stopped “taking”, but it doesn’t work out: this forced honesty is a sign of a complete fall in the weight of the legislative power, the disappearance of parliament as a power institution. The deputies left only a small field for games - the right to formulate a variety of prohibitive initiatives, more or less frightening, and some even implement.

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