No Data on Senators Foreign Accounts Says Upper House

MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti) – The upper house of Russia’s parliament, the Federation Council, has no data on how many of its senators might have foreign bank accounts, its deputy speaker said on Wednesday. “Previously, and even now until the relevant law is adopted, submitting such data has not been required,” said Vorobyov, who is also the chief of the Council’s commission verifying data on senators’ incomes. “So we do not have such information,” he added. In mid-February, President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the lower house of Russia’s parliament, the Stat…

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