TFR Prosecutor General to entrust the investigation to check the bulk of the Seagull – RBC

Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika

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The prosecutor’s office will deal very

The Investigative Committee of Russia (MRS) responded to the request of State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov, to the Office in mid-December. The deputy asked the chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin check the details of the investigation figurants of business family Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, is published by the fight against corruption (FBC) Alexei Navalny. The request concerned the Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin and his ex-wife Olga, who accused the joint FBK doing business with women the main defendants in the case of the murders in the village Kushchevskaya – Sergei hoe and Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz. According to the FCO, with women now own “Sugar Kuban».

Gudkov TFR asked to indicate whether his wife Olga Lopatin Deputy Prosecutor General at the time of registration “Sahara Kuban” and at the time of the massacre in the village Kushchevskaya. The deputy also asked for information on whether the deputy prosecutor general had Lopatin relation to the process of investigation into the murder in Kushchevskaya, and if so, what are its functions. Lopatin after the publication of the investigation FBK passed through a representative of the Prosecutor General a statement which denied any connection with the family members of the gang Tsapkov and stressed that with her husband supports extremely friendly relationship.

The set Gudkov questions do not relate to the Investigative Committee and the statement does not include within the competence of the TFR reasons, said the department response to a deputy inquiry. All questions Gudkov sent to Prosecutor General’s Office said in a document signed by the deputy chairman of the TFR Ilya Lazutova (there are at the disposal of RBC). The representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office did not respond to a request to RBC.

Prosecutor General’s Office once commented outlined details: the request of “Novaya Gazeta” in December, the representative office Marina Gridneva said that all information about the income and assets of employees of the Prosecutor General and the members of their families each year are published on the official website of the ministry, their validity is checked. In response to the request of the publication also noted that Russian law does not impose a requirement on the prosecution authorities to publicize and validate information about this property adult relatives prosecutors.

In accordance with Article 42 of the Federal Law “On Prosecutor’s Office”, if there is suspicion that an employee prosecutors had violated the law, then the test will be carried out the prosecutor’s office, because it “is their exclusive competence”. The lawyer, legal analyst of the international human rights group “Agora” Ramil Ahmetgaliev, who previously worked in the Prosecutor’s Office of Tatarstan, in a conversation with RBC could not recall that the prosecutor’s office checked herself. According Akhmetgalieva, such verification would make sense if the higher supervisory authority examines the activities of the lower. In this case, I’m sure Ahmetgaliev Investigative Committee actually tried to avoid answering: Gudkov asked TFR estimate is seen whether the offense in the circumstances set out FBK or not, but this question in the department did not comment.

Who else is asked to check the Seagull

FBK after the publication of the investigation sent a letter to the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, in which he said “violations Yuri Chaika criminal legislation of Russia” and offered “to take measures to dismissal of the Attorney General, “he wrote on December 3 Navalny in his blog.

Matvienko told a week later that he is familiar with the treatment of FBC and sent it to the committee. According to her, it should give a “comprehensive response.” December 30, “RIA Novosti” reported with reference to the available to the Agency a letter prepared by the Federation Council Committee on constitutional legislation and state construction that outstanding Fund to Fight Corruption “does not set out evidence of illegal activity the Attorney General.” Senators called Navalny set out a political order.

With a request to verify the facts stated on the Seagull also addressed two deputies of the State Duma. The first was the United Russia Iosif Kobzon: two days after the onset of the investigation, he said that the gull must resign if the suspicions against him are true, and even wrote a request to the Investigative Committee in one of the episodes of the investigation – the circumstances of the death of General Director Verkhnelensky river shipping company. The Investigative Committee said Kobzon, which already checked the circumstances of the death in 2012 and the signs of violent death were found.

The query in the TFR for checking these facts send and communist Vladimir Bessonov, to seek the prosecutor’s office review the issue of transfer to the court of his criminal proceedings (communist accused of assaulting a representative of the authorities in the course of the rally). Bessonov told RBC that has not yet received an answer investigators.

December 15 activists of the Fund’s fight against corruption to pitch all the deputies and senators with a request to send requests for Chaika, told RBC’s press secretary Alexei Navalny Cyrus Yarmish.