The State Duma of the Russian Federation has given its consent to forwarding to court a criminal case against a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin on charges of illegal hunting.
It is reported by Interfax.
Currently, Rashnikov is subject to a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. As part of this preventive measure, the deputy is prohibited from: visiting hunting grounds, sending and receiving correspondence, using any means of communication and the Internet, communicating with witnesses in a criminal case and other defendants in a criminal case, and also leaving the place of residence without the written permission of the investigator from 23:00 to 07:00.
Recall that in December last year 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.
