Russia Lawmakers Strip Communist Of Immunity In Hunting Probe
Faizan Hashmi Published November 25, 2021 | 06:29 PM
Russian lawmakers on Thursday voted in favour of stripping a senior Communist deputy of his immunity as he faces a high-profile probe into the illegal killing of an elk
Moscow, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Nov, 2021 ) :Russian lawmakers on Thursday voted in favour of stripping a senior Communist deputy of his immunity as he faces a high-profile probe into the illegal killing of an elk.
Critics say the investigation into Moscow Communist Party first secretary Valery Rashkin is politically motivated, after he led protests in the Russian capital following parliamentary elections in September.
Rashkin and other Communists accused the ruling United Russia party of fraud after it won an overwhelming majority in the election.
During a plenary session on Thursday, a majority of lawmakers from Russia's lower house State Duma backed removing Rashkin's immunity as requested by prosecutors.
The poaching investigation was launched in October after Rashkin and a friend were found with parts of an elk carcass in the trunk of a car near the Volga city of Saratov.
Rashkin, 66, initially denied any illegal hunting but later admitted he had killed the animal, claiming he had mistaken it for a wild boar.
He proposed paying 80,000 rubles ($1,070, 950 Euros) in compensation for the killing, or to buy a cow elk and release it into the woods.
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