According to the current legislation, persons with a criminal record cannot be members of the lower house of parliament
On May 23, the Council of the State Duma of the Russian Federation decided to submit for discussion in the lower house of parliament the question of depriving the mandate of a deputy from the Communist Party, the first secretary of the Moscow branch of the party, Valery Rashkin. On the same day, the Saratov Regional Court dismissed the appeal against the verdict against Rashkin in the case of illegal hunting.
According to Vedomosti, citing sources, the deputies will decide on the termination of Rashkin’s powers on May 25. Under current law, persons with a criminal record cannot be members of the lower house of parliament.
Recall that last month the Kalininsky District Court of the Saratov Region delivered a verdict in a high-profile case of illegal hunting against Valery Rashkin. The parliamentarian received a three-year suspended sentence.
Recall, on December 2, 2021, 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.
