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By November 23 the RF State Duma will adopt in the second reading the presidential anti-corruption draft-law package requiring the declaration of both private income expense of the state employees. The leader of the ‘United Russia’ fraction, vice-speaker of the Internal Chamber of the Parliament Andrey Vorobyov informed the journalists.

‘By that we will make an important step in fighting against corruption. Everything will be as clear as in the palm’ he noted.

Vorobyov confirmed that after the presidential initiatives, ‘like the one headed by Vladimir Vasilyev in Duma’, about the supervision of the income and expenses of the state employees shall be implemented in all the regions of the RF, in ‘every governmental institution’.

Vorobyov also informed that on November 7 parliamentary hearings will take place in State Duma related to the second reading of the amendment to Article 159 /defining fraud/ of the Penal Code initiated by the RF Supreme Court. ‘We should make the norms left from the USSR compatible with modern demands, to act in a way so that all the abuses would be excluded’ stated the parliamentary leader of the ‘United Russia’.

He informed in this regard that the corrections are already ready. It is expected that the charges of fraud will be brought only based on the applications of the victims, with the exception of state and municipal authorities. Besides that, it is suggested to implement the responsibility of the staff of law enforcement bodies for realizing false persecution defined by Article 159 of the Criminal Code.

ITAR-TASS informs that the vice-speaker hopes that the new edition of Article 159 will be adopted by the State Duma before December 1.