Leonid Eduardowitsch Sluzki
Leonid Eduardowitsch Sluzki ( Russian Леонид Эдуардович Слуцкий ; born January 4, 1968 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a Russian politician of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia . He is a member of the Duma and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .
Life
Slutsky was the deputy secretary of the Communist Youth Union in Moscow between 1988 and 1989 . From 1990 to 1991 he was head of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR and was promoted in parallel to the superior of the innovative sector of this body. After a brief activity as an advisor to the Executive Committee in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs , Slutsky moved to Moscow City Administration in June 1992, where he served as an advisor to the mayor until the end of 1993. In August 1994 he took over the management of the board of directors of the public company " Prominvestbank ".
Sluzki studied organizational management at the Economic and Statistical Institute in Moscow (today: Moscow State University for Economics, Statistics and Information Technology) and successfully completed his studies in 1996. He is a doctor of economics. The topic of his dissertation was: The Development of Small Business Ownership in the Modern Russian Economy . Between 1997 and 1999 he held the post of deputy chairman of the board of the stock corporation " Unikombank ".
On December 19, 1999, Slutsky was elected as a member of the “ Zhirinovsky Bloc” in the State Duma for the third legislative period and was always confirmed in the four parliamentary elections that followed (1999-2016). As of January 2000, Sluzki has been the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs. In the same year he was appointed Head of Delegation of the Federal Assembly of Russia in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and in 2012 Vice-President of this organization. Until 2012, Sluzki also acted as the responsible coordinator of the Russian-French parliamentary group.
Sluzki has been on the sanctions list of the USA and Norway since 2014 .
Criticism and scandals
Sexual harassment allegation
Slutsky was charged with sexual harassment . In 2018, Doschd producer Daria Schuk, RTVi deputy editor-in-chief Jekaterina Kotrikadse and Farida Rustamowa from the BBC's Russian service spoke up . Rustamova ran a dictation machine during her conversation with Slutsky, and the BBC later published excerpts from it. You can then hear Slutsky refer to Rustamova as a "bunny" and ask her to leave her boyfriend and become his lover. The President of the Russian Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin defended Slutsky and denied the allegations. Anyone who feels at risk while working in the Duma should look for another job.
Corruption allegations
The opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) have produced three investigative documentaries about Leonid Slutsky.
Film 1: "Immoral MP. Psychopath. Corrupt Official"
In March 2018, the FBK drew the public's attention to various offenses committed by Slutsky in the video "Immoral MP. Psychopath. Corrupt official".
Among other things, the video is about assets that Slutsky, as an official, is obliged to make public. In Rublevka , an expensive suburb of Moscow, the MP has owned an 800 m² house since 1999. In 2016, Sluzki declared a corresponding plot of 1,200 m². But the FBK researched that Sluzki had already rented the neighboring forest property of 1 hectare in 2008, until 2055. He did not disclose this in any of his income declarations.
Furthermore, the income declaration 2010 shows that Sluzki owns a Bentley Continental Flying Spur worth around 13 million rubles, with his wife being given as the owner. The FBK points out that the MP's annual income is only 2 million rubles, around one sixth of the vehicle's value. Even the wife with a monthly income of 7,000 rubles would not have the means to buy a Bentley. In the 2016 declaration, two more vehicles are listed: Mercedes-Maybach S 500 4MATIC and Bentley Bentayga with a new price between 15 and 22 million rubles, again registered on his wife. Here, too, the wife of MPs could not have bought the Bentley Bentayga for lack of funds of her own, even if she had the higher income of 16,000 rubles per month in 2016.
The Anti-Corruption Fund has a well-founded suspicion of illegal enrichment by an official. Article 20 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption states that each state party must take all necessary measures "to prevent unlawful enrichment, that is, a considerable increase in the assets of a public official which he cannot plausibly explain in relation to his legitimate income if committed intentionally, to be rewritten as a criminal offense ". The civil servant thus bears criminal responsibility if his assets exceed his official income. However, according to Navalny, Russia deleted Article 20 when it ratified the UN Convention against Corruption. The FBK calls for the full ratification of this document in order to fully take up the fight against corruption in Russia.
The FBK aroused particular interest in the Mercedes-Maybach listed in the 2016 income declaration, because during the inspection, Navalny and his employees discovered 825 traffic crimes committed by the driver of the Mercedes-Maybach between June 2017 and March 2018. On average, this is around 3 traffic law violations per day. It's not Sluzki who drove personally, but his chauffeur. But this acted on the instructions of the MP. Navalny describes Slutsky in this context as a "socially dangerous psychopath". Extrapolated to the year, the result is fines of around 2 million rubles. This means that 40% of his annual income is used for traffic offenses alone. This is another argument that the Duma deputy cannot live on his official salary alone.
Navalny emphasizes that all of these are hard facts for the dismissal of Slutsky from civil service. He is convinced that there are enough reasons for a criminal investigation and subsequent dismissal of Leonid Slutsky from the civil service: sexual harassment and humiliation of journalists, luxury vehicles in his income declarations, which suggest bribes, undeclared renting of a huge property and finally 825 committed traffic offenses that cast doubts about his mental sanity. But the dismissal of an official from the civil service on allegations of sexual harassment, illegal enrichment and corruption is not yet feasible in today's Russia, Navalny has to admit. Nonetheless, on March 7, 2018, the FBK sent a letter to the State Duma committee, which is responsible for checking the reliability of information on income, property and financial obligations, requesting that the measures adopted by the law be taken early to prevent Leonid Slutsky to be released from his duties as a member of the State Duma.
Film 2: "Three-story penthouse of MP Slutsky"
In June 2018 the second documentary about the machinations of Slutsky followed. However, it was not Alexei Navalny who presented the results of the investigation, but his FBK colleague Georgi Alburow. Navalny had been detained for three weeks at the time.
In January 2017, the Russian press reported on the request to the public prosecutor's office by Sergei Polonsky, a businessman accused of fraud, to initiate criminal proceedings against the two MPs Leonid Sluzki and Vladimir Ressin , since they had given him bribes in the form of a penthouse , the owner of the property Polonski was, had assumed. It is the top three floors of a high-rise building in a luxurious residential complex, also known as the "Kutuzow Riviera". The value of this three-story penthouse is $ 6 million (or 400 million rubles). Via the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Russian abbreviation: Rosreestr) the FBK learns that a certain Lidia Dmitriewna Lyskowa is the owner of the said penthouse. Lyskova, although she has a different surname, is the wife of Leonid Sluzki. Although Polonsky personally directed his complaint to the public prosecutor Yuri Yakovlevich Tschaika , neither the public prosecutor nor any other authority reacted to it. The FBK regards this as a criminal act of concealment on the part of the state institutions and again calls for Slutsky to be dismissed from civil service.
Film 3: "How do you buy a Bentley? We explain the whole scheme"
In June 2019, the third film investigation was finally published by the FBK. Here the FBK found out in the statement published by Sluzki for the year 2018 that he bought another Bentley for around 30 million rubles and had it registered again in the name of his wife. But his annual income is only 5 million rubles. Using an extended declaration by Slutsky and his wife, who is listed as a pensioner, the FBK reviews their income and expenses in 2018. The Anti-Corruption Fund states that the pensioner Lyskova, with a monthly income of 18,000 rubles, is used to finance the Bentleys took out a loan of 25 million rubles (interest-free and with a term of 10 years), but not from a bank, but from a certain Mardachai Yuschwajewitsch Yuschwajew. Until recently, he owned 50% of the shares in the company "Akkord Specstroj", which won a public tender in the amount of 3.3 billion rubles in 2018 and is now entrusted with the repair of streets (300,000 m²) in the Moscow area. In addition, the construction company emerged as the winner in the tender for the core renovation of apartment buildings in Moscow. For the FBK there is evidence that the building contractor Yuschwajew paid bribes to Slutsky for receiving lucrative construction and repair contracts.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slutsky personal website: Биография , accessed April 24, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Political Science Faculty of Lomonosov University Moscow: Слуцкий Леонид Эдуардович , accessed on April 24, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Слуцкий Леонид Эдуардович - RUCRIMINAL. Истина сделает вас свободными. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018 ; Retrieved March 22, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Debate Show No. 62: Sexual Harassment in the Duma . In: Dekoder.org , March 9, 2018.
- ↑ Two Russian journalists accuse politician of sexual harassment . In: The Guardian , March 2, 2018.
- ^ Duma: Allegations of sexual harassment in the Russian parliament . In: Handelsblatt , March 7, 2018.
- ↑ Alexei Navalny's YouTube channel: Домогающийся депутат. Психопат. Коррупционер. , accessed April 24, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ The Federal Council / The Portal of the Swiss Government: United Nations Convention against Corruption , p. 15 in the pdf, accessed on April 24, 2020.
- ↑ Alexei Navalny's blog: За настоящую борьбу с коррупцией , accessed April 24, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Novaya Gazeta: Навальный обнаружил у Слуцкого незадекларированный участок и сотни штрафов заД нарушение , accessed April 24, 2020 (Russian ПД нарушение ).
- ↑ Alexei Navalny's blog: 8 марта. В знак солидарности выгоняем из Госдумы домогающегося депутата. Психопата. Коррупционера , accessed April 24, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Alexei Navalny's YouTube channel: Трёхэтажный пентхаус депутата Слуцкого , accessed on April 25, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Alexei Navalny's blog: Пентхаус-взятка депутата Слуцкого , accessed on April 25, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Alexei Navalny's YouTube channel: Как купить Бентли? Рассказываем всю схему , accessed April 25, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Alexei Navalny's blog: Как купить Бентли? Рассказываем всю схему , accessed April 25, 2020 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sluzki, Leonid Eduardowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Слуцкий, Леонид Эдуардович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |