The parliament of the Russian Federation reacted to the statement by the deputy head of Transparency International Russia Ilya Shumanov regarding the former Crimean prosecutor, and now the deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, that he "will have to file an investigation into Madame ex-prosecutor". Head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Counteracting Corruption Vasily Piskarev sent a request to the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, in which he asked to verify the words of Shumanov, RIA Novosti reported on May 22.

The head of the State Duma commission for monitoring the reliability of information on incomes and property Natalia Poklonskaya in an interview with RNS on May 20 proposed to conduct an anti-corruption audit of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny and the Russian branch of Transparency International. "I do not include any organizations in any blacklists, I simply do not have them. Information can not be accepted only because some organizations are politicized. But, perhaps, it would not hurt to check them for corruption. Because, as they say, on the thief and the hat burns. Maybe they are therefore the loudest screamer, "she said..

In turn, Shumanov in response to this statement wrote on Facebook that "I wanted to rest a bit, but instead have to saw the investigation of Madame ex-prosecutor". The vice-speaker of the State Duma, chairman of the faction "United Russia" in the Duma, Vladimir Vasilyev called this statement blackmail and threat to the deputy. And the deputy secretary of the General Council of the United States, Yevgeny Revenko, noted that he regards Shamanov's statement as an undisguised blackmail against the Crimean parliamentarian.

Poklonskaya on Twitter said she was ready to show her property to Transparency International, but only if they "show their". "However, I'm ready to show my property, if loud-voiced fighters against corruption in return will show their own," she wrote..

In the very Transparency International reported that they are ready to discuss with Poklonskaya a proposal for verification.

According to Piskarev, the committee believes that Shumanov's public statement was made with a view to exerting an undue influence on Poklonskaya in connection with her exercise of her official powers on the activities of this non-profit organization.

He believes that employees of foreign funds are required to comply with the laws of the countries in which they work, "especially if their companies position themselves as institutions of public control over compliance with the law".