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Irkutsk: Governor Levchenko found an undeclared country house
In the Irkutsk region, journalists found the undeclared country house of Governor Sergei Levchenko. According to the newspaper Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda, this is a building of three floors, in the territory of 25 acres on the Baikal tract. The site also has a guest house and a building for staff.
The current head of the region received a land plot from the former mayor of the Irkutsk region Sergey Zubarev, when he was a deputy of the State Duma. According to the publication, part of the land has been owned by Levchenko since February 2016, the other has been leased for a period of 47 years since 2015. At the same time, in the declarations for this period, the official did not indicate the presence of a country house.
As the governor’s press service answered, the house is an object of incomplete construction. Therefore, he does not have to declare it. IRK.ru became known that, at the expense of the regional budget, Sergey Levchenko was rented an apartment in Irkutsk. Per year, the amount of rent exceeds a million rubles.
Earlier, the Accounts Chamber promised to send investigators an audit of the trips of the Irkutsk governor to Vienna with a symphony orchestra. According to the Chairman of the Chamber, there are doubts about the statement that 2 million rubles earned by the Governor's Orchestra abroad could not be taken to Russia. On the trip of Sergei Levchenko and the orchestra to Austria this month, according to the chamber, they spent more than 10 million rubles, of which 7.7 million rubles allocated the budget of the Irkutsk region.
Sergey Levchenko is a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 2015, with an advantage of 15%, he won the election of the Governor of the Irkutsk Region, candidate from United Russia, ex-governor of Angara, Sergey Eroshchenko. According to the declaration of the head of the region, in 2017 he earned almost 5 million rubles, has two land plots, an apartment with an area of 90.1 square meters and garage boxing. The wife of an official for 2017 indicated an income of 7.6 million rubles, three apartments, a garage and a car Audi Q7.