The State Duma allowed to classify data on the property of high-ranking officials who are under the protection of the FSO. Military pensioners for Russia and its armed forces A register of corrupt officials is being created

Of course, it is necessary to protect those who exercise state power and had or has access to state secrets, but what grounds are there to hide from the only source of power in the country, the multinational people, what an official who has agreed to serve the people possesses?

Cases with governors that are under investigation or have already been convicted prove that with “clean as a tear” declarations, they have property that they could not have purchased with their salaries and in a hundred years of service.

And from whom are they going to hide what the majority of officials, their wives and relatives boast to each other?

The people see in which apartments officials live, which houses and summer cottages they have abroad, which yachts of officials call at foreign ports.

Every day, Russians see that police officers and other law enforcement agencies come to work by car, which is higher than their annual earnings.

The Internet today allows you to find out almost everything about the property of an official.

And the employees of the operational services today are endowed with such measures that, without much effort, will bypass all the secrets and learn not only about what the official has, but also on what he spends his "earned".

However, this information remains unclaimed for the fifth year.

Only to the governor Khoroshavin, was applied p. 8 p. 2 art. 235 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which made it possible to return to the state everything that the governor was able to steal from him.

The rest of the convicts, who stole millions and billions, received only punishment, sometimes suspended.

And under such circumstances, the State Duma expanded the powers of the Federal Security Service (FSO), passing the law in the third reading.

Special services will be able to hide personal information about the first persons under their protection. It is about bank accounts, real estate, including foreign, and the place of residence of the official's family members.

Some deputies were surprised by this law. “In fact, by adopting this law, we exclude property from under public, journalistic control,” the communist Aleksey Kurenny opposed.

But Anatoly Vyborny, deputy chairman of the Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption, gave explanations. - All information specified in anti-corruption legislation will be published. In the public domain, there will be information about income, transport, houses and square meters.

Indeed, why were they scared? Application of pp. 8, paragraph 2 of Art. 235 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation directly depends on whether V. Putin's Administration finds deception in the official's declarations and whether it sends the materials to the Prosecutor General. Five years of action in the country of the named norm prove, they find deceit in declarations with great difficulty. This rule was applied to thieving officials no more than 20 times. The head of state spares his appointees. But with such a state administration, life becomes sad, despite all the efforts of V. Putin to order a holiday in Russia.

According to the law, now the state security authorities have the right to “take measures to protect the personal data of objects state protection and their family members ”. The processing of such data is carried out with the consent of officials and (or) with the consent of state security authorities "with the exception of personal data subject to publication or mandatory disclosure in accordance with federal laws."

In addition, FSO employees received the right “to gratuitously use airports, aerodromes, heliports, landing sites, sea and river ports, regardless of their organizational and legal forms of ownership, and also receive flight and navigation support free of charge. "

If earlier the state security service could block streets and roads for its own needs, now highways have been added to this list.

The law also describes the rules for demonstration and application by FSO employees physical strength, special means and weapons.

"Capable of necessary defense or urgent need employees of state security bodies in the absence or impossibility (inexpediency) of the use of special means or weapons have the right to use any available means (including transport), "the new law says.

At the same time, FSO employees were limited in their ability to be present on social networks. In particular, they are prohibited from "posting in the media, on the Internet" information (including photos, videos and other materials) about themselves, other employees (...), allowing them to disclose their affiliation with state security bodies, about their official activities. "

We will remind, earlier the head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Vasily Piskarev explained that according to the law, information about the places of residence and temporary stay of officials and their relatives for their safety will become classified. The prohibition does not apply to income tax returns. At the same time, according to the deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party faction Aleksey Kurinny, the adopted bill will make it possible to hide the property of officials from public and journalistic control. The communist also noted that the list of persons subject to the law is not defined.

The anti-corruption organization Transparency International recently published an investigation into the discovery of an undeclared apartment in Donetsk. Housing, judging by comparisons of facts from open sources conducted by the agency, may belong to Natalia Poklonskaya. The deputy in response stated that she intends to send a request to The General Prosecutor's Office to check the anti-corruption agency on the facts of defamation and abuse of power. The public conflict between the deputy and Transparency occurred after Poklonskaya proposed to conduct an audit of the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny and the Russian branch of Transparency International, because "there is a hat on the thief."

In April last year, Transparency International published an investigation into the apartment of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Activists suspected that as a result of a deal to exchange a ten-room apartment on Starovolynskaya Street in Moscow for an apartment in Bolshoy Tishinsky Lane, about 37 million rubles of taxes were hidden from the state. After his address was made public in a TI publication, Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin decided to move to a rented apartment "for security reasons."

In early March this year, the Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation published a film and an investigation about Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. 50-minute video reveals "secret assets" former president Russia and a network of non-profit funds that own multibillion-dollar real estate. There was no official investigation into the facts set out in the video. A month later, Medvedev called the content of Navalny's film "nonsense". Then the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it did not have the authority to verify the information contained in the film. In Russia, two opposition actions "Dimon will answer" were held, at which citizens demanded answers on the facts set out in the FBK video. At both actions - on March 26 and June 12 - hundreds of people were detained throughout Russia.

In April, the Dozhd TV channel and the Meduza portal published investigations, according to which State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and Deputy Nikolai Pankov built estates for themselves in the Smolensk region.

Amendments to the law on state protection were proposed by President Vladimir Putin in February, and today they were approved by the deputies in the third final reading.

The FSO will have additional powers to protect the personal data of protected persons. The wording of the law makes it possible to virtually classify information about the property of representatives of the ruling elite. Experts believe that this will lead to the disappearance from public registers of information about the president, prime minister, prosecutor general, head of the IC, speakers of parliament and presidents of courts, as well as information about their loved ones. The head of the Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption United Russia Vasily Piskarev previously explained that only information about the places of residence of VIPs would be banned. So they supposedly want to protect them from possible threats, such as terrorist attacks. According to the deputy, the first persons will continue to declare protected objects.

In addition, the FSO is granted the right to “temporarily prohibit the movement Vehicle and pedestrians on the routes of state protection objects ”. However, anti-corruption investigations - using open data, drones with cameras and other devices - are likely to be difficult. By the way, after the signature of the document by the president, the state security officers themselves will have to go through fingerprint registration without exception. All employees of the service will be prohibited from reporting in the press and on social networks about their affiliation with the department, posting photos and videos with their images and images of colleagues. The FSO will also be able to use airports, helicopter landing sites, sea and river ports free of charge.

Now the document must be approved by the Federation Council and signed by the head of state. In March, Vladimir Putin has already endowed the FSO with the right to seize land for the needs of the service. Such powers were previously requested and federal Service security.

Transparency International does not yet know how to cope with the restrictions that it introduces new law, - said "Echo" lawyer of the organization Dmitry Utukin.

The law on the powers of the FSO adopted by the State Duma in the third reading, which provides for the protection of personal data of persons protected by the service, will make it possible to hide the income and assets of the country's most senior officials from citizens. This opinion was expressed by the editor of the investigation department of Novaya Gazeta, this year's Pulitzer Prize laureate for an investigation based on the Panama Archives, Roman Anin, on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

“We have the first persons of the state under the protection of the FSO. This is not aimed at protecting these people, but at preventing society from learning about their corruption violations, ”the journalist said.

“Of course, now we will not know what the president’s family owns, what the prime minister’s family owns, what the president’s guards and other persons who are guarded by the Federal Guard Service own,” he explained. "If the wife of some high-ranking official is engaged in business and owns real estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars, then we simply will not know about it and society will not know about it."

R. Anin stressed that it will still be possible for investigative journalists to get such classified information. However, the release of officials from the need to report to citizens, in his opinion, refers to the past centuries, and government officials turns into a "caste of untouchables, about whom nothing can be said, nothing can be known and nothing can be written about."