After my post about a judge in Kaluga seeking an Audi for 4.5 million rubles, we of course also filed a complaint about it.
Now the guys from RosPil (an anti-corruption project focused on public procurement) have reported the current status of the case: The court itself voluntarily canceled the purchase immediately after the post went up (we approve of that decision). Our complaint was ultimately reviewed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and found to be justified:
That’s good news.
The bad news is that officials buy luxurious, expensive cars every single day.
RosPil cannot possibly track and challenge every one of them.
None of us can see the car purchases made by state corporations and state-owned companies, much less challenge them.
And now more good news:
We’re not going to sit back—we’re going to collect one hundred thousand signatures in support of a bill banning purchases of cars costing more than 1.5 million rubles for officials and employees of state corporations, which would require the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliament) to put the issue to a vote.
Then RosPil won’t have to run around challenging each individual Mercedes.
Of course, RosPil will keep running around for as long as necessary, but if we can act more effectively together and try to change the law, why ignore that opportunity?
This was the one hundred and twenty-eighth call for civic responsibility and an active public stance.
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