TFR Chaika instructed to check the investigation Navalny – BBC Russian

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Image caption Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika described the investigation FBK about the business of his family registered and details represented in it, false

Russia’s Investigative Committee said on request of State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov, who asked to verify the information of the investigation Fund Alexei Navalny on the family business Prosecutor General Yury Chaika. SC said that redirect requests to the Attorney General.

“argument within the competence of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the application does not contain, in connection with which it is sent to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation”, – said in response to TFR on Dmitry Gudkov’s request.

On December 1 the Fund to combat corruption has published an investigation of the sons of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. According to the investigation, Artyom Chaika owns a home in Switzerland, the luxurious hotel in Greece, as well as developing the salt, sand and gravel supplies. BCF also accused Artyom Chaika in relationships with family Tsapkov.

Dmitry Gudkov, inter alia, requested the Investigative Committee of Russia to test the links, Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin and his ex-wife with criminal structures in mid-December.

As explained then Gudkov, rereading response the Attorney General on the request of the newspaper “Kommersant” on the investigation of FBK, he did not understand from it, were any relatives of employees of the Prosecutor General business with family Sergei hoe, convicted for the murder of 12 people in the village Kushchevskaya.

The MP asked the TFR to answer two questions. First, there was his wife Olga Lopatin Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Gennady Lopatin at the time of registration of the company LLC “Sugar Kuban”, one of the owners which included representatives Tsapkov family, as well as at the time of the massacre in the village Kushchevskaya. Secondly, whether there was Gennady Lopatin relation to the process of investigation of the massacre in Kushchevskaya, and if so, what are the functions performed in its course.

Earlier, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika described the investigation registered, and the information in it to be false. Later, he called the head of the investigation by the customer fund Hermitage Capital, William Browder, and, in the words of The Seagull, “behind him special services”.

Bulk and Browder denied involvement Hermitage Capital head of this investigation.