Remember our glamorous newlywed from the State Duma? A former prosecutor’s office employee with a 446-square-meter apartment on Tverskaya worth 300 million rubles (probably more by now).
The public servant’s car collection looks impressive too:
Even though Communist MP Voronenkov has a legal income of just 3 million rubles a year.
After our publication, it emerged that the lawmaker is under investigation in a corporate raiding case, which apparently became the source of his astonishing wealth.
And today, Kommersant reports another detail from our hero’s biography: he was found to possess “award” Glock 19 pistols, received from Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry in exchange for a “contribution to the development of its material and technical base” in the amount of $150,000.
The Kyrgyzstan trick is well known. That country’s Interior Ministry is even more corrupt than Russia’s Interior Ministry (yes, that is possible), and for money they will issue you an award order, allowing you to acquire a pistol legally. You can’t carry it, but you can keep it at home.
Just another telling detail in the portrait of this man. He has so much easy money that he throws away $150,000 on nonsense, while having almost no legal income to speak of.
Why am I writing all this? Right now, the Investigative Committee is fumbling around trying to gather evidence in the raiding case. Not very successfully, apparently, if they’ve turned to minor things like pistols. But if our law on combating illicit enrichment had been adopted, bringing charges against Voronenkov would be the easiest thing in the world.
Here is your official income (tiiiiiny), and here are your documented expenses (huuuuge). Welcome to the defendant’s bench.