Deputies of the State Duma voted in favor of depriving the immunity of the representative of the Communist Party faction Valery Rashkin, who is suspected of illegal elk hunting. On Thursday, November 25, reports TASS…
The Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov had previously addressed the parliament with a corresponding submission. He considered it necessary to bring the deputy to administrative responsibility under Part 1 of Article 12.26 of the Administrative Code (“Failure by the driver of a vehicle to pass a medical examination for intoxication”) and under Part 2 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“Illegal hunting”).
After that, the State Duma commission on mandate issues recommended consent to the lifting of immunity from Rashkin.
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The deputy said that he went to the Saratov region to rest after the elections to the State Duma. There, together with his friends, he went hunting – according to the politician, he was told that all the necessary permits for this were available.
The parliamentarian said that he found an animal at the edge of the forest and mistook it for a large wild boar. After that, he fired twice, and then, going up to the corpse of the beast, he realized that it was an elk. Rashkin butchered the carcass with an ax and a knife that were in his car, and then went for one of his friends, who helped him load the prey into the trunk.
At the exit from the forest, according to Rashkin, his car stalled, then another car drove up, and the unidentified people who got out of it demanded that he open the trunk.
Volodymyr Shabliy, a freelance hunting inspector of the Kamchatka Territory, evaluating Rashkin’s explanations that he confused an elk with a wild boar, said that this was impossible, since the elk is much taller than the wild boar and grows up to two meters.
“In general, it’s accepted by real hunters: I’m not sure – don’t shoot. Because shooting at a rustle is at a person, ”the expert noted.
When the deputy was detained with a moose carcass in the trunk of a car, he explained that he had seen the killed animal while walking through the forest and was taking it to hand over to the police.
According to Rashkin, when he and his friend were stopped, there was “a whole horde of FSB officers, police, environmental structures” nearby.
“Fearing for my friend Alexander, as well as in order not to accidentally set anyone up, I didn’t find anything better and blurted out, well, that I’ve found the carcass of this elk,” Rashkin explained later, stressing that he didn’t drink alcohol, but the smell of alcohol “emanated from the friend Alexander who was next to him, whom he brought with him to the clearing from the house after the feast. “
For illegal hunting, Rashkin could face a prison sentence of three to five years. This follows from the materials that Prosecutor General Krasnov sent to the State Duma.
Earlier, in an interview with Lenta.ru, lawyer Rodion Yuryev also suggested that Rashkin would face just such a punishment.
“If it was, say, in a specially protected area, imprisonment for up to two years is possible. And if this is committed by a group of persons – as in this case together – then imprisonment from three to five years and deprivation of the right to occupy some positions are provided, ”the lawyer explained.
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