Following our investigation into Zarina Doguzova, the head of Rostourism, who was given an apartment in a luxury building by the state, we filed three complaints with the Investigative Committee at once.
First, a complaint over the submission of false information. As a public official, Doguzova is required to disclose information about her income. But her 2020 declaration lists an income of 3.6 million rubles, whereas we counted clothing and jewelry alone worth 30 million rubles.
Second, a complaint under two articles of the Russian Criminal Code: abuse of office and exceeding official authority. Zarina could hardly be described as needy, even by the standards of Russian officials. That means she could not have been eligible for an apartment from the state housing fund in a building constructed with public money.
And third, a complaint about falsification of Rosreestr records, from which information about the owner of that very apartment was deleted.
All of this amounts to real crimes. These are what the Investigative Committee should be investigating, instead of dragging our former employees in for questioning or carrying out yet more searches in connection with the "sanitary case" (a Russian criminal case tied to alleged COVID-era public health violations).