Parliamentarians

Deputy of the State Duma in 2011-2021, member of the Just Russia party

Offshore

Portobello Enterprises Limited (British Virgin Islands)

How to related

The offshore business of the family of Alexei Chepa is discussed in the correspondence of Trident Trust Company employees (provides assets management services around the world). At the end of 2018, employees of the internal control department of Trident Trust inform the client managers of their Hong Kong unit that they checked the company Portobello Enterprises Ltd, registered on the British Virgin Islands, and found that its beneficiaries - Alexei Chep and his daughter Anastasia are “politically significant persons. "

What is wrong here

In the explanations that the managers provided the internal control department, it is argued that all his business projects, including Portobello, gave Chepa to children-Anastasia and Daniil. And now professional managers are engaged in these projects. If this is indeed so and if the donation occurred before the fall of 2013, Alexei Chepa formally did not violate the Russian law.

Alexey Chepa in business for more than 30 years. In Russia, he is listed as a co -owner of a dozen companies. It is not surprising that his family has companies abroad. For example, the Novikov restaurant in London, which Chepa opened with Arkady Novikov (and then rewrote his share to his son). Alexey Chepa is a rich man: over the past 10 years, he only officially, like a deputy, declared an income of more than 800 million rubles. Therefore, it is not surprising that his family has real estate abroad. For example, from Portobello Enterprises, it follows that the company was created to own real estate in London- a building and garage near the Kensington Palace and a Hyde Park worth 25 million pounds (about 2.4 billion rubles at today's rate). It is not surprising that the children of businessman Chepa, as Medusa wrote , live in London.

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It is amazing what initiatives and statements were remembered by deputy Alexei Chep.

“In the State Duma, I work as deputy chairman of the Committee on International Affairs,” he told this spring during a visit to Smolensk. - Accordingly, I often go abroad and I know what pressure Russia feels from there. Why is this happening? Because our country does not live under the dictation of the West and becomes stronger. And we, thanks to our President Vladimir Putin, are well holding a blow. ”

From the very beginning, Chepa supported the law on foreign agents and complained that the law appeared too late. “We had the most democratic approach, everywhere they are much more strictly approaching this. You can notice how this liberalism led to permissiveness, this must be quickly stopped. ”

When the United States refused to visa to several members of the Russian delegation at the UN General Assembly, Chepa proposed punishing Russians for this-to limit the opportunity for them to obtain American citizenship: “I think we can ban all events like the Green Cart lottery, which the United States conducts allegedly“ The Oblige of Democracy ”. Our measures will be such that everyone pays attention to this. "

The initiatives of Alexei Chepa are listed on the State Duma website under the heading "Objects of lawmaking". Here are some “objects”, the co -author of which he was in a free retelling: on counter -sanctions against unfriendly states, primarily against the United States; On foreign agents, in particular, that they can be declared individuals and prosecute them; On the restriction of educational activities in order to “counteract anti -Russian propaganda” in the school and student environment.

Also, this spring, Chepa, along with other members of the Ksenofob Commission for the investigation of the facts of interference with foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia, introduced the famous project “Against Navalny” in the internal affairs of Russia. The new law deprived the Russians involved in the activities of "extremist" organizations, the right to be elected for 3-5 years. Thanks to this, there were almost no candidates independent from the authorities in the last elections.

At the same time, Chepa was among the initiators of the bill, which establishes control over the compliance of the expenses and income of persons holding state posts and their relatives. It was assumed that in case of inconsistency, the property acquired on the “left” income was confiscated. Unfortunately, the law did not even have the first reading in the State Duma.

Photo: State Duma of the Russian Federation