It’s quite funny: Senator Fetisov, whom we caught owning banned ~~spice~~ offshore companies, has started frantically re-registering them, apparently failing to understand that the Anti-Corruption Foundation sits high and sees far (a Russian idiom meaning it can see everything) — and can spot all his tricks:
Look: on March 27, a share transfer service was ordered for 2 of Fetisov’s 3 offshore companies.
And immediately afterward, a Certificate of Shareholders was ordered — that is, a document listing the new owners. This is exactly the kind of document we ourselves submit as evidence of Fetisov’s illegal activity.
We don’t know all the details yet, but the “cunning senator’s” plan is obvious: transfer the Cypriot offshore companies out of his own name and onto some British Virgin Islands offshore entities, where it’s much harder to dig around. Then haul the new certificates to the Federation Council commission and, batting his eyes, say: I don’t know anything — I’m an honest, de-offshorized senator.
We’ll see how that works out, because at the moment we filed the complaint, we had already proven with 100% legal certainty that he did have offshore companies. That is exactly why we classify the Fetisov case as ideal.
In any case, this behavior from the senator disappoints us. We had hoped he would honestly step down and focus on what people actually respect him for — hockey, coaching, and so on. Why the hell does he need this Senate seat? Just the other day, on America’s most popular TV show, Fetisov was quite cheerfully saying that the U.S. is very good. So it seems he’s straying from the party line.
His famous exchanges with an American judge are delightful, although they do somewhat contradict Russian law:
The man is living life to the fullest, busy with things that are important and profitable. Why does he need public office? Unless it’s for parliamentary immunity.
It’s time to go, Senator. Time to go.