Bastrykin saw “baseness” in the move of ex-deputy Voronenkov to Ukraine

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that the ex-deputy of the State Duma Denis Voronenkov “reached the baseness” when he emigrated to Ukraine in an attempt to avoid criminal punishment. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

“By fraud, he was held by the organizer of fraudulent schemes“ hit ”entrepreneurs. They pulled, pulled up until he left the State Duma and went to Ukraine, because we had to bring him to criminal liability and, most likely, would arrest him. I would not have reached such a baseness - to make such statements, to accept the citizenship of Ukraine in order to evade criminal liability, ”said the head of the UK.

As Bastrykin emphasized, the investigation twice issued a decree against Voronenkov. He added that the case against the ex-deputy is “not the whim of Bastrykin and the Investigative Committee”, but the “real mechanism for the return of the company's funds” to the Russian budget. The words of the head of the UK bring TASS.

Former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Denis Voronenkov left Russia to Ukraine in October 2016 along with his wife Maria Maksakova, an ex-deputy from United Russia. In December of the same year, Voronenkov received Ukrainian citizenship. On February 14, in an interview with the Ukrainian publication “Censor.NE” (blocked in Russia by court decision), he said that he was pushed by the FSB to emigrate.

In addition, in an interview, Voronenkov said that he did not vote for the accession of Crimea to Russia in 2014, with the help of his card, colleagues in the faction voted. According to the ex-deputy, he did not give a power of attorney to vote. The voting results became a mistake for both him and for Russia, Voronenkov emphasized.