Candidates to the state Duma more property in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain and France.
Only one of the candidates in the state Duma said that he has property in Finland. Candidates provided information about their ownership in Finland, which was published 15 August on the website of the CEC. The newspaper Helsingin Sanomat studied the data.
Candidate Rifat Shaikhutdinov said that owns half of the estate “Peninsula” which he purchased in 2000. The cost of the transaction amounted to € 37 200. In addition, last year Shaikhutdinov bought in Italy house for 173 thousand Euro.
Shaikhutdinov, a former Duma Deputy from the nationalist and populist liberal democratic party, which now wants to go to the lower house of Parliament according to lists of party “Civil platform”. The party was a project of Mikhail Prokhorov in 2012, which collapsed due to disagreements related to the situation in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea to Russia two years later. Prokhorov and his liberal supporters left the party, after which Shaikhutdinov became its leader.
The most popular places abroad where the estate or plots of the candidates are Bulgaria and France in each country is 20 real estate candidates.
Next in popularity followed by Cyprus and Spain, in both countries is more than ten properties. Georgia, Latvia, Turkey, Ukraine, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy and Ireland bypassed Finland in the number of objects of the Russian real estate.
Earlier in August, the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported that the Russian desire to buy in Finland, the estate is greatly reduced.
International non-governmental organization Transparency International gathers data from the Russian influential persons on the page Declarator.org.
According to information presented on the page, in 2014 at least nine influential Russians announced on their property in Finland. Many of them officials and politicians from St. Petersburg and Russian Karelia.
Among them are the former head of Rosimushchestvo Olga Dergunova, as a formal pretext for the April layoffs which included the illegal trip to the cottage in Finland. To travel need a special permit.
According to the statement Dergunova, in 2014, her husband owned in Finland, the house has an area of 400 square metres and family plots.
The Deputy Minister of transport Viktor Olersky in 2014 stated that in Finland owns approximately 2.9 acres of land.
According to Russian law, high officials, politicians and heads of state enterprises need to report your income and assets — both its own and spouse and children. In addition to labor income, stocks, savings, real estate and vehicles, officials must report information about their foreign property and land ownership.
Elections to the lower house of Parliament, or Duma, will be held on September 18.
