Putin offers State Duma to ignore the rules of the International Anti -Corruption Convention (Photo)

In particular, Volodymyr Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill, which proposes a denomination of the Convention on Criminal Liability for Corruption. The said document was signed by the Russian Federation in French Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.

The bill states that Vladimir Putin proposes to refuse to comply with the rules of the International Convention after the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has stopped membership of the Russian Federation in a group of states against corruption (Greco). "The Russian Federation is deprived of the right to participate in the discussion in the process of adopting reports, as well as the right of voice.

Due to the unacceptability for the Russian Federation, such conditions, as well as for the purpose of taking measures aimed at preventing discriminatory attitude to the Russian Federation within the framework of Greek evaluative mechanisms. " , - the text of the document, which was entered in the head of the Kremlin to the State Duma, reads. The official website of the Parliament also stated that this bill on denunciation of the Convention is supported by the government of the aggressor country.

It is worth noting that in 1999 Ukraine also signed the Convention on Criminal Liability for Corruption, and in 2009 - ratified. The document has officially entered into force on March 1, 2010. The Criminal Liability Convention for Corruption is a large -scale document aimed at coordinated criminalization of a wide range of types of corruption practice. It also provides additional measures in the field of criminal law and expanding international cooperation in prosecuting corruption crimes.