Deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin, accused under a criminal article on illegal hunting, after many futile attempts, finally acquired a live elk to compensate for the damage caused by his act.
This is reported by the telegram channel of the publication Readovka with reference to Rashkin’s colleague in the lower house of the Russian parliament, Olga Alimova.
At the same time, Alimova noted that the Saratov region is not yet ready to accept live compensation from Rashkin, because they “do not know what to do in such cases.” Apparently, we are talking about problems of a bureaucratic nature.
As Readovka notes, Rashkin tried for a long time to acquire a live elk, with its subsequent release into the wild to replace the one he killed near Saratov, in order to compensate for what he had done last year. The people’s choice complained that he applied to many hunting farms and even tried to buy ungulates abroad, but was refused everywhere.
Recall, on December 2, it became known that the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, opened a criminal case under the second part of Article 258 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal hunting) against Valery Rashkin. Prior to that, on November 25, at a meeting, deputies of the State Duma voted to satisfy the proposal of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation on the removal of immunity from their colleague, allowing Rashkin to be held criminally and administratively liable for illegal hunting and refusing a medical examination, and also to elect a measure of restraint against him .
According to the materials of the investigation, on the night of October 29, in the Lysogorsky district of the Saratov region, police officers, together with an employee of the hunting and fishing committee, stopped a Lada Largus car registered for the Saratov regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, driven by deputy Valery Rashkin. Another man was also in the car, and the carcass of a dead moose was found in the trunk. It is assumed that it was the parliamentarian who shot the forest dweller, thereby violating the current legislation, since he did not have permission to hunt this animal. Rashkin was required to undergo a medical examination for the presence of alcohol intoxication, to which he refused.
