Steering Internal Troops guard Putin failed to disclose income – RBC

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First Deputy Interior Minister, Commander of the Interior Troops of the Russian Interior Ministry, Viktor Zolotov was the only senior leader in the security agencies did not report their income and property to site office. In files published on the official agencies in the “information on revenues, expenditures, property and liabilities of material nature” for 2014, information on Zolotov missing.

According to the decree of Vladimir Putin № 613 on July 8, 2013, information on the income of high-ranking officials are updated annually no later than 14 working days after the deadline for their submission. The deadline expires on April 30 date of publication – May 25th. According to the same decree, if the information of any officer absent on the official site office, at the request of the federal mass media are obliged to provide them, within seven working days notice to the employee, in respect of which the request came.

The press service of the Interior troops, RBC reported that for the publication of information, the responsibility of the Department of Civil Service and Personnel Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Interior Ministry to request RBC dated June 9, to provide information about income and property Zolotov and his family did not answer.

For information about income and property of senior officials are published on the official websites of government agencies, according to Art. 8 of the Federal Law “On Combating Corruption”. The list of positions, which involves the replacement of the publication of such information, approved by presidential decree №557 from 18 May 2009.

The registry includes such positions and deputy federal ministers, which include appointed to his post in May 2014 Viktor Zolotov , According to Deputy Director of the Center anticorruption Research and Initiatives Transparancy International (TI) Andrew Zhvirblis.

TI’s lawyers sent a request asking the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and the head of department on combating corruption, the President Oleg Bad conduct an audit in respect Zolotov.

rarity, but not FSO

The case Zolotov representative TI called “relative rarity” for the officials at the federal level. “Still, non-deployment of the declaration – a gross violation, and this seems to follow – explains Zhvirblis. – On the other hand, it is a logical continuation of the reluctance of the security forces are required to disclose information ».

The site FSO, which previously served Zolotov, disclosed information about the four leaders, although service site contains mention of the seven divisions, said a representative TI. In particular, the head of the Service published a declaration of special communication and information SSF.

Do not be published on the site FSO and information on income Zolotov, although from 2000 to 2013 he was chief of the Security Service of the President of Russia – Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service.

It is possible, in the case of Zolotov is a senior official reluctance to disclose information about yourself and your family, suggests a representative TI.

Sanctions

Failure to publish information on income entails disciplinary action up to dismissal, said the head of the working group of “open government” to monitor the implementation of the national anti-corruption plan Kirill Kabanov. The exclusive position Zolotov can be adjusted except by special closed by presidential decree, suggested Kabanov.

President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov declined to comment, citing the fact that the information on Zolotov must provide the Ministry of Interior. He added that he was unaware of the existence of any orders that would allow the Interior Troops commander in chief not to publish the declaration.

The the law “On Combating Corruption” concrete measures liable for specific violations are not set.

The current legislation requires that the punishment for the violation of the presidential decree – the prerogative of the employer or his representative, a civil servant; Zolotov appointed by the president, so he and his administration will make a decision in the circumstances, according to the TI.

During 2014 the Ministry of Interior have been conducted 3660 checks the authenticity of information about income of police officers, according to the responses Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltseva questions of deputies of the State Duma (they were preparing for a government hour with its participation in April). For inaccurate or incomplete information, only nine employees were laid off, even in 1107 were brought to disciplinary responsibility.

Have a reprimand or other sanctions theoretically prevents us from obtaining the next special rank, but not the post, said the head of Russia’s largest trade union of policemen Mikhail Pashkin. “In fact, it is at the discretion of management, if necessary, the manager can easily remove all sanctions and assign the next rank and appointment as penalties do not prevent,” – he explained Pashkin.

Head guard

61-year-old Colonel General Viktor Zolotov, from 1990 to 2000, he served “in various senior military positions in the organs of State Security of the Russian Federation,” the deputy minister’s biography on the official website of the Ministry of Interior. In the first half of 1990 gold he became the personal bodyguard of the then chief of Putin – St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak. But even before that, as a source told RBC familiar with the situation in the then St. Petersburg, gold guarded personally mayor’s daughter Ksenia Sobchak.

With the arrival of Putin in the Kremlin Zolotov he headed the presidential security service within the FSO.

In 2013, with the chief guard of President Zolotov entered the service in the Interior Ministry as Deputy Commander of the Interior Troops. In May last year became the first deputy Minister of Internal Affairs – Chief of the MIA Russia.

Zolotov was awarded the Order of Courage, Friendship, “For Service to the Fatherland» III and IV, Alexander Nevsky, “For Military Merit”. In July last year, the Patriarch also awarded memorable patriarchal Zolotov sign “700th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonezh” for “assiduous works in glory of Russian Orthodox Church».

The Interior Ministry subordinated media mentioned that the gold medal was awarded the rare “Defender Free Russia “with the words” 21 August 1991 “and the image of the fence at the White House. During the August coup Zolotov together with the head of the presidential guard Alexander Korzhakov standing next to Boris Yeltsin during his famous speech from the roof of an armored personnel carrier.

Immediately after the appointment Zolotova the Interior Ministry in May 2014 close to the leadership department sources said RBC the former president of the guard can change Kolokoltseva as minister, but the rumors were not confirmed. Himself Kolokoltsov representing personnel of the Internal troops of the new commander, Zolotov described as “an officer with the legendary biography.” “His wealth of experience gained over time, the ability to intelligently organize activities will be entrusted to the direction of the absolute key to a successful solution of problems posed by the Commander in Chief” – subordinate rknul Kolokoltsov.

With the participation of Ivan Golunova