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Kommersant
November 17 will be held the first meeting of the Commission on control over incomes and property of state Duma deputies. Its Chairman Natalia Poklonskaya announced changes to the regulation of the Commission: it will be collected upon receipt of complaints of violations of the deputies. While they received only in connection with violations during the election campaign. This information is “taken note of”, said Ms. Poklonskaya.
The Duma Commission on control over reliability of data on incomes and property of deputies for the first time in this convocation will be tomorrow at 15:00. According to its Chairman, the Deputy from “United Russia” Natalia Polonskaya, while the Commission will deal with organizational issues. In particular, Ms. Polonskaya will invite my colleagues to deny the opportunity to vote for their proxy by analogy with the ban on the transfer of cards at meetings across the state Duma. In addition, the Chairman of the Commission proposes to amend Commission regulations by replacing monthly meeting meetings as necessary, i.e., if there are any complaints.
The first complaint is already there, but they are directly the activities of the deputies of the state Duma of the seventh convocation is not affected. “Currently only has information with regards to the election campaign of candidates for deputies”,— said Natalia Poklonskaya. Previously, “Kommersant” wrote, in particular, about the new Deputy of the state Duma from “United Russia” Andrei Burnashova, who only the day before the first meeting of the state Duma disposed of the shares in the Czech company, but had to abandon foreign financial instruments at the beginning of the campaign (see “Kommersant” on November 8).
“Of course, we are able to accept, but given the fact that they contain information about the alleged violations that were in the election period, i.e. before the elections, this information is taken note of, she says. Checking, we are unable to organize in the framework of the Commission according to this information, but these materials and all these arguments in the appeals will be used and tested in the framework of the Declaration campaign from 1 April 2017, that is, this information does not disappear without a trace”. According to Ms. Polonskaya, “in full swing working Commission” will take place on 1 April 2017 when they will start to do the Declaration of income and expenses.
In 2012, during the work of the state Duma of the sixth convocation, on this Commission proves the fact of participation of the opposition Deputy Gennady Gudkov in business, after which he was deprived of his mandate.