Alexander Bastrykin
The former Deputy of the state Duma Denis Voronenkov moved to Ukraine to avoid prosecution. On Thursday, March 2, said the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) Alexander Bastrykin, reports the correspondent of”.ru”.
“We have twice made to the Prosecutor’s office a complaint against this Deputy, when he still had this status. Twice he took on the organization of fraudulent schemes against the entrepreneurs,” he said at the Board meeting.
Boronenkov went to Kiev, because “we had to bring him to trial and likely would have been arrested”, said the head of the TFR.
On 15 February it became known that the TFR Boronenkov announced in the Federal wanted list. Investigators issued a resolution on attraction it as the accused in the organization of falsifying the unified state register of legal entities and fraud.
On the same day the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said that Voronenkov gave very important testimony in the case of treason against former President Viktor Yanukovych. The ex-Deputy, according to Lutsenko said that Yanukovych allegedly wrote two letters with a request to send troops to Ukraine — “one Russian President Vladimir Putin, the second Russian state Duma”.
14 Feb the edition “Censor.No” (blocked in Russia — approx. “Of the tape.ru”) published an interview with former MP, in which he confirmed receipt of the Ukrainian citizenship. He argues that the case against him was fabricated. The Russian justice system works “in an accusatory manner,” he said.
Denis Voronenkov was elected to the state Duma of the sixth convocation from the Communist party. To be re-elected to the lower house of Parliament of the seventh convocation on the results of the September elections, he could not. From the Communist party expelled right after became aware of his second citizenship, reported in the party.