MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. The Russian State Duma's committee for regulations has supported the proposal of the Prosecutor General's Office to deprive lawmaker Ilya Ponomaryov of deputy immunity, Vladimir Ponevezhsky, a member of the parliament's lower house, said on Monday.
The issue will be considered at the State Duma session on April 7. Russia’s Investigations Committee plans opening a criminal case against Ponomaryov who is currently staying abroad.
According to invesigators, Ilya Ponomaryov is accused of complicity in embezzling 22 million rubles ($ 383,300) that he received from the Skolkovo Foundation.
In April 2013, the Skolkovo Foundation filed a lawsuit against Ponomaryov, who was formally a member of A Just Russia Party’s caucus in the State Duma. The lawsuit followed his refusal to file a financial report on the lectures, which he was support to give under a contract with the foundation and which he received $ 750,000 for.
Ponomaryov said in a telephone interview with TASS last September he was staying abroad but he was ready to return unless the authorities imposed foreign travel restrictions on him. At the time of the conversation, he had plans to stay in Asian countries and to go to the US.
The Office of Russia’s Prosecutor General submitted a query to the Duma on Wednesday, March 25, asking it to strip Ponomaryov of parliamentary immunity.
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