A member of the credentials committee, the Communist Alexander Ladygin came to the Verkh-Isetsky District Court to support the Socialist-Revolutionary Armen Karapetyan in the case against the assembly of the Sverdlovsk region, the JustMedia correspondent reports.. en.

He stated that violations of Armen Karapetyan, for which he was deprived of his mandate, are not comparable with violations of 9 deputies, early termination of their powers was also required by the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region.

"I'm not an expert here, but the violations of Armen Eminovich, even if they were, are clearly not comparable to what was in the other nine. Believe me, as a member of the Credentials Committee. I can not disclose the data, but there it is a question of such amounts going. Some deputies have tens of millions and real estate a few dozen hectares near Moscow. Against their backdrop, his possible violations of Armen Eminovich look nonsense. I do not like it when one of my colleagues is used as a lamb to slaughter for the sake of saving the rest. We must follow the letter of the law. Let's do it, but then we really need to deprive the whole ten mandate, "he said..

Let us remind you that the Sverdlovsk region prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit on the obligation of the precinction to terminate the powers of the deputies Albert Abzalov, Anatoly Marchevsky, Oleg Korchagin, Valery Saveliev, Vladimir Ilyin, Alexei Korobeinikov, Alexander Ivachev, Pavel Myakishev, Andrei Zhukovsky and Armen Karapetyan.

The main claims of the department were to Karapetyan - the scandalous deputy did not indicate in his declaration on the property and income of his two underage children, combined his deputy activity with the entrepreneurial and arranged his wife an assistant, paid her a salary at the expense of the budget even while she was vacationing abroad.

After the first order of the prosecutor's office, the deputies secretly refused to deprive Karapetyan of the mandate. Then the department filed a lawsuit for the deprivation of the mandates of 10 deputies. After that, on May 22, the zakso still stopped Karapetyan's powers, and the prosecutor's office revoked the lawsuit on depriving nine deputies of their mandates.

Armen Karapetyan filed a lawsuit against the return of his mandate. This morning the first meeting took place, at which a break was announced until 15:00.