The court approved a preventive measure for Communist Party deputy Valery Rashkin in the case of killing a moose

The Moscow City Court upheld the ban on certain actions imposed on the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin in the case of illegal hunting (part 2 of article 258 of the Criminal Code). reports SOTA .

In December 2021, Rashkin was forbidden to leave the house from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. and communicate with other defendants in his criminal case and was charged. According to investigators, he killed a moose in the Saratov region at the end of October 2021.

• The State Duma, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, deprived Valery Rashkin of his parliamentary immunity because of the illegal hunting case. After that, a criminal case was opened against him . Rashkin considers his persecution to be political.
• Valery Rashkin has been a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1999. After the elections in September 2021, he claimed fraud and also spoke at a rally against the results of the vote. In addition, Rashkin sent deputy requests to check the facts from the film “He is not Dimon to you” about real estate allegedly owned by then Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, as well as the actions of operatives in the New Greatness case , and opposed pension reform.