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Representative of the State Duma of Communist Party Valery Rashkin is ready to testify in criminal proceedings against him for illegal hunting. At the same time, he is outraged that in the situation “they have already grounded everything, the whole country has been promoted to their ears.”
Rashkin added that apparently “there are no other problems for the country.” Earlier on Thursday, the head of the Russian Committee of Inquiry, Alexander Bastrykin, opened criminal proceedings against Valerim Rashkin for illegal hunting.
The investigation states that On the night of October 29, at the “Winch” hunting farm in the Saratov region, Rashkin and his accomplices tracked down and shot a moose with a carbine during an illegal hunt. >
Parts of the animal were loaded into the trunk and interior of the car and drove off, but then the car was stopped by an employee of the Regional Hunting and Fisheries Committee, he said in an ICR statement.
and intends to hand over to law enforcement authorities however, he admitted that he had shot an elk, allegedly mistaken him for a wild boar. As a result, the State Duma waived Rashkin's parliamentary immunity at the request of the Attorney General.
Rashkin recorded a video report on the scandalous hunt: “The elk's body is lying”
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