Prosecutor calls CEC decision to remove Grudinin from elections legal

MOSCOW, August 9. The representative of the Prosecutor General's Office considers the decision of the Central Election Commission to exclude the head of the Moscow Region State Farm named after Lenin Pavel Grudinin from the federal list of candidates of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the elections to the State Duma as legitimate. conclusions on the case. Zyuganov compared the removal of Grudinin from the elections with the shooting of the White House «I believe that the contested decision of the Central Election Commission is legal and reasonable,» she said. The prosecutor added that Grudinin was obliged to close all foreign companies and get rid of foreign assets before running for the State Duma. Earlier, the CEC received a letter from the ex-wife of Grudinin that he has a stake in a foreign company. According to the Prosecutor General's Office presented at the CEC meeting, Grudinin continues to own 16,667 shares of Bontro LTD, registered in Belize. The CEC registered a federal list of 344 candidates for the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, excluding Grudinin from it on the basis of information from the State Enterprise about the ownership of foreign financial instruments. CEC provided new documents on foreign assets Grudinina KPRF filed a complaint with the Supreme Court. According to a report on the portal of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, they consider the decision of the Central Election Commission regarding the candidate from the Communist Party «unfounded and illegal», violating the right of the party to equal participation in elections and the right of Grudinin to be elected a deputy of the lower chamber. two notarized documents in English that are not legalized in Russia and have no legal force on the territory of the Russian Federation. » It is noted that the prosecutor's office received information from Prudential Trust Corporation Limited, which was not the registrar of Bontro LTD and had no information about the owners. It is also emphasized that Grudinin submitted certified documents to the CEC, which testify to the alienation of foreign financial instruments in 2017 and the subsequent liquidation of Bontro LTD on December 27, 2018. Zhirinovsky urged the Communist Party not to involve Grudinin in politics