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Representative of the State Duma of Communist Party Valery Rashkin will be questioned by the Russian Commission of Inquiry on Monday, December 6, as a suspect in the case of illegal hunting. According to the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, a member of the faction in the lower house of parliament Sergei Obukhov, Rashkin will go there in the afternoon, in the afternoon.
Earlier, Obukhov said that Rashkin had been summoned for questioning by a committee of inquiry. The deputy became a criminal defendant after being detained on a highway in the Saratov region. An elk carcass was found in the trunk of the car. The MP originally denied the killing of the animal. He claimed to have found him shot.
Then Rashkin changed his testimony. Losa is said to have mistaken the wild boar, for which he was allowed to hunt. In November, members of the State Duma, at the suggestion of Attorney General Igor Krasnov, voted to waive Rashkin's parliamentary immunity. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, meanwhile stressed that Rashkin had “done the wrong thing” by publicly lying about not killing elk on an illegal hunt.