State Duma deputy uses his status to evade a company controlled by him from repaying a loan of $33 million
The original of this material© Vedomosti, 04/22/2010, The deputy refused the bank money, Photo: dumainfo.ru
Vera Kholmogorova
Duma deputy from the LDPR Valery Seleznev refuses to repay a loan of $33 million. The bank complained about him to the parliamentary ethics commission, and the commission began collecting materials.
In February 2010, the management of Nomos-Bank turned to Alexander Gurov, Chairman of the State Duma Commission on Deputy Ethics, with a request to take action against Deputy Valery Seleznev (Vedomosti has the letter): he uses his deputy status to evade the company controlled by him from fulfilling obligations under loan agreement.
In 2007, the bank and Fatherland LLC, of which Seleznev was the founder at that time, entered into an agreement to provide a loan of $ 33.586 million for the construction of the Fresh Plaza complex in Vladivostok, the letter says. In 2008, after Fatherland had financial difficulties, the loan, at the request of Seleznev, was reissued to another company - ZAO Federation. The founder of the Federation, according to the bank, is Yu. V. Tolmacheva, “actually controlled by Seleznev,” but she also continues to evade paying money.
The letter has been sent, confirms the vice-president of Nomos-bank Valery Zinchenko, so far there has been no reaction, the verification is ongoing. According to Zinchenko, the parliamentarians requested materials from the Internal Affairs Directorate for Primorsky Krai. In addition, according to a person close to the bank's shareholders, on Tuesday they won the first court case against Federation CJSC in the Moscow Arbitration Court, recovering $ 45 million (Vedomosti has the court document), the lawsuit against Fatherland LLC was denied .
Alexander Gurov told Vedomosti that he is not yet ready to comment on the issue, since the ethics commission has not completed the check. It is necessary to understand in detail all the circumstances, deputies are often slandered, he emphasizes.
According to another high-ranking parliamentarian, work is underway on the application, requests have also been sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office.
Seleznev considers the letter a political order, behind which are the Far Eastern forces who want to denigrate him. His Duma work to support the disabled is supported by all factions, the deputy continues, he cannot make any transactions as a legal entity, because after being elected to the State Duma, in accordance with the law, he transferred all business to management companies. If there are any problems with the return of loans, then these issues must be resolved in the legal field and go to court against debtors, says Selezenev.
A person from the administration of the Primorsky Territory says that there are no political conflicts around Seleznev, he is in good standing in the Primorsky Territory, most likely this is a business conflict.
According to political scientist Yevgeny Minchenko, this may be an intra-party conflict within the LDPR itself: Seleznev has recently taken an active position, often appears in the media, and in the party Zhirinovsky the number of media people is severely limited. But the situation when officials and deputies solve business issues, taking advantage of the position, alas, is not uncommon, the expert concludes.
cruel games
Valery Seleznev, 46, started doing business in 1994; 2007 elected to the Duma. He became famous for his statement about the need to combat violent computer games.Why the son of a State Duma deputy accused in the USA of hacking was silent for twenty months before writing: “I am wrong and I apologize”
Judge Richard Jones on Friday will decide on the punishment for the Russian Roman Seleznev, whose arrest in the Maldives and subsequent extradition to the United States caused a wide resonance in his homeland. The son of a State Duma deputy from the LDPR, Valery Seleznev, was previously unanimously found guilty by the jury on 38 counts of cyber fraud, intentionally causing damage to a protected computer, obtaining information from it, storing more than 15 unauthorized devices for accessing secure computer networks, stealing personal information under aggravated circumstances. The prosecutor's office requested the maximum sentence - 30 years in prison, the defense asks the court to go beyond the lower limit, taking into account the positive characteristics of the convict's personality.
In the memorandum of the prosecutor's office (available to Kommersant), Judge Jones is urged not to show any leniency towards the Russian, since he did not cooperate with the investigation, although he declared such an intention. He pleaded guilty, but after a guilty verdict by the jury.
It follows from the document that the first meeting of Mr. Seleznev with representatives of the prosecutor's office to discuss the cooperation program took place in December 2014. “At that time, shortly after the arrest of the accused, the information he possessed could be useful for investigating other crimes. The government made it quite clear that the significance of such cooperation would diminish, if not disappear, by the time of the trial, which was then scheduled for 4 May 2015. Nevertheless, the defendant chose not to cooperate,” reads the prosecution's document, which came to the court a week before the sentence was determined. The Russian, in particular, refused to give the names of other defendants allegedly involved in his schemes. According to the prosecutor's office, Mr. Seleznev "saved these trump cards for further negotiations, remaining silent for 20 months."
Valery Seleznev
Roman Seleznev asked for a meeting with representatives of the prosecutor's office only after the guilty verdict was delivered, when there was no hope of acquittal. On March 28-29, 2017, meetings were held at which the Russian repented of the crimes committed and named some of the accomplices with whom he was engaged in criminal business during 2005-2014, until his arrest. “However, these names were already known to US intelligence agencies. Such testimony, due to the nature of cybercrime, was needed in the first days and weeks after the arrest of the accused. Then his fate could have turned out quite differently,” the memorandum says.
The defense, in a 20-page petition, calls on Judge Jones to be lenient, offering to look at Roman Seleznev's life as "a chain of tragic circumstances." Left by his father from the age of two, he lived in poverty with his mother, who suffered from alcoholism and died of alcohol poisoning when the teenager was 17 years old. A successful student was forced to leave the university due to lack of funds and embark on the path of easy money. He met his father only in 2011 in Morocco, but accidentally became the victim of a terrorist attack in Marrakesh. When in a hopeless, according to doctors, state, the Russian was in a coma, his then wife filed for divorce. Severe injuries did not go unnoticed for the health of Roman Seleznev, who also suffers from hepatitis B.
Roman Seleznev
The defense cites the most positive characteristics provided by the prisoner's bride, a single mother, Anna Otisko, whose daughter Mr. Seleznev replaced his father, as well as his relatives and friends on the paternal side. “I am extremely proud of Roman… He is a role model for me,” in particular, Mikhail Seleznev's half-brother, 16, assured the court in Seattle in writing.
While imprisoned in the United States, the Russian defended his diploma with honors as an assistant legal adviser in criminal law, learned English and attended 15 Bible interpretation courses. “He realized his mistakes and will never repeat them again,” his lawyer said.
Larisa Saenko
"BFM.ru" , 19.04.17 , "Why did the Russian hacker plead guilty after three years of denial?"
The son of State Duma deputy Roman Seleznev, accused in the United States of cyberfraud, confessed, RIA Novosti reported. His father, Valery Seleznev, a member of the LDPR Duma faction, told RBC that Roman was being tortured in the United States. Could the Russian hacker have slandered himself? And if he really is guilty of stealing credit card numbers, how much could he earn from this?
The testimonies in English, written by Seleznev by hand and with errors, take up 11 pages. He describes in detail his difficult childhood, problems in family life, the injury he received during the terrorist attack in Morocco in 2011, and also complains about the unprofessional work of his lawyers.
“I will work very hard to pay my debt to the victims and society. I will work honestly,” promises Roman Seleznev. Almost three years that have passed since the arrest, he did not admit his guilt. Why now the Russian, who in the United States is called the largest dealer in stolen credit cards, decided to change his testimony?
On the computer of Roman Seleznev during his arrest in 2014, more than one and a half million stolen credit card numbers were found. According to prosecutors, in total, he stole the details of almost three million credit cards, which he later traded on his forums. Seleznev himself earned about $2 million on this, and financial institutions around the world suffered a loss of $170 million through his fault, the prosecution claimed. How much could Roman Seleznev earn by selling numbers of stolen cards?
The Seleznev case caused a stir due to the circumstances of his detention. Seleznev was captured in July 2014 by agents of the US Secret Service at the airport in Male in the Maldives. His father regarded his son's detention as a kidnapping and turned to the Russian Foreign Ministry for support. But the authorities of the Maldives denied the accusations of Roman's kidnapping: the detention was carried out at the request of Interpol and with its assistance. Where could a Russian hacker hide from American justice?
Mikhail Zadorozhny
"BFM.ru" , 09.10.15 , “The son of Deputy Seleznev planned to escape from an American prison”
American investigators said that the son of State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev may have intended to escape from the Seattle detention center. 31-year-old Roman is charged in the United States in a case of bank fraud for millions of dollars. At the disposal of the investigation were records of his conversation with his father, during which they probably discussed the escape from the detention center. It is reported that during the conversations they used a certain cipher.
According to the Guardian newspaper, during the conversation, the deputy called the people helping his son "wizards" and "doctors" who can "get him out of the hospital." The conversation also included the phrase “Uncle Andrei’s version,” the meaning of which the investigators have not yet established. The recording of the conversation has already attracted the attention of the Seattle authorities and the US Attorney General.
Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, the son of a member of the State Duma of Russia, tried to commute his sentence with a letter in which he talks about growing up with an alcoholic mother, about the difficult everyday life of a cyber fraudster and his miraculous recovery after a severe injury. The federal court in Seattle did not believe the letter and sentenced Seleznev to 27 years in prison.
However, before moving on to the letter, a copy of which was at the disposal of the BBC Russian Service, let's return to the events that preceded the verdict.
In mid-April, the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington filed a 35-page motion with Judge Richard Jones outlining its reasons for seeking to sentence Roman Seleznev to 30 years in prison.
This is an unheard-ofly long term, to which even such major hackers as the Ukrainian Roman Vega, who received 18 years, or the Americans David Keymez (sent to 20 years) and Alberto Gonzales, who stole details of about 45 million credit cards with accomplices, were not sentenced in the United States (he also received 20 years).
The prosecutor's office noted that, in theory, Seleznev should even be sentenced to life imprisonment for 38 crimes in which the Seattle jury found him guilty.
His trial took place in August last year and took 8 working days.
As prosecutors wrote to the judge, “Sitting at a keyboard in Vladivostok and Bali, Indonesia, Seleznev and his accomplices hacked into thousands of computers around the world, including the systems of numerous small businesses in the Western District of Washington. Seleznev stole millions of credit card numbers from these computers, which he then sold to other criminals to use in fraudulent transactions.”
“But Roman Seleznev not only stole and sold credit card data,” it says further. “He was a criminal entrepreneur whose innovations transformed the carding industry,” that is, credit card fraud.
The Russian created two automated points of sale for credit card details, which made it easy for criminals to find and buy stolen data. These “shops” have made carding as easy as purchasing a book from Amazon.com, prosecutors say.
Plant for many, many years
After that, Seleznev created, under the pseudonym 2Pac, "an online marketplace where dozens of infamous hackers sold their stolen credit card data."
While providing the supply of stolen information, Seleznev also stimulated demand for it by organizing the POS Dumps website, which taught thousands of new criminals the basics of using this data for fraudulent purposes.
Context
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22.04.2017US court sentences Russian Seleznev to 27 years in prison
22.04.2017According to prosecutors, "Seleznev enriched himself on this activity and lived in grand style at the expense of law-abiding taxpayers whose businesses suffered losses or died as a result of Seleznev's attacks."
“Seleznev also brought colossal losses to financial institutions,” prosecutors continue. - Only known losses related to Seleznev's crimes are approximately $170 million. Its victims include 3,700 different financial institutions, over 500 companies worldwide, and millions of credit card holders.”
The prosecutor's office does not exclude that the total amount of material damage caused by Seleznev and his accomplices may exceed a billion dollars.
Judicial sentences in the United States are calculated according to a special table, in which there are a maximum of 43 levels. The prosecutor's office emphasizes that the crimes for which Seleznev was convicted add up to 59 levels, and notes that "Roman Seleznev apparently harmed more victims and caused more losses than any other defendant ever brought before this court."
Calling on Judge Jones to hand down an unprecedentedly harsh sentence for the Russian, prosecutors noted that Seleznev is “a man of extraordinary computer talent and extraordinary business acumen, but he has repeatedly preferred to take on cybercrime, each time expanding the scale of his criminal enterprises and the extent of the harm they have caused.
Prosecutors warned that “after his release, Seleznev would return to Russia, where he would once again be out of reach of American law enforcement officers. The verdict should come from the fact that Seleznev would not be able to carry out his cyberattacks for many, many years.”
Four laptops from Russia
The current lawyer of the Russian, Igor Litvak, disputed the prosecutor's assessment of the damage, stating that his client sincerely repents of his deed, and assured that he will never take up the old, as he masters other professions in prison.
Arguing that Seleznev intended to be released with a clear conscience, Litvak reminded the judge that "at his last interrogation, Seleznev not only honestly answered all the questions of the prosecutor's office, but actively and truthfully provided all the information he had."
As the lawyer noted, “During the interrogations, it seemed that the prosecutor's office was showing great interest in this information. There was no impression that she doubted the veracity of Seleznev.
In light of the foregoing, Litvak wrote to the judge before the sentencing, he was rather mortified that prosecutors were now asserting that “Seleznev made statements that are obviously false and thus further devalued the information he provided.”
According to the lawyer, this conclusion of the prosecutors is not supported by what happened during these interrogations, “especially in light of the fact that Seleznev was the initiator of relations with the prosecutor’s office and in recent months provided her with four of his laptops and six drives that were brought to the United States about assistance of his protector.
"The defendant chose not to cooperate"
The prosecutor's office usually does not advertise their meetings with prisoners, knowing how other prisoners feel about these meetings. But in this case, Seleznev's lawyer did not keep them a secret, and the prosecutor's office considered that she had the right to answer him, even though her answer would fall into an open database.
From her answer, it turns out that Seleznev first met with prosecutors in December 2014, that is, 5 months after he was arrested in the Maldives and handed over to the Americans. The idea was that he would provide the investigation with information and thereby alleviate his fate. So, at least, prosecutors thought.
As they wrote to the judge the other day, at that moment Seleznev still had fresh information that could be useful in other investigations. On the eve of the meeting with Seleznev, the prosecutor's office repeatedly told his then-defenders that the value of his testimony - and, accordingly, the amount of indulgence that he could count on - depended on how relevant his information was. In the fast-paced world of hackers, it becomes obsolete very quickly.
The prosecutors warned that if Seleznev postponed the meeting with them until after the trial, which was then scheduled for May 4, 2015, then the value of his cooperation with the investigation would be greatly reduced, if not completely lost.
“The accused nevertheless decided not to cooperate,” prosecutors wrote. He behaved aggressively and repeatedly refused to name his accomplices. Seleznev explained that he is holding back this information, since this is his trump card in negotiations with prosecutors. The latter did not need negotiations, but compromising evidence, which Seleznev did not provide at that time.
Overripe information
According to the prosecutor's office, in the following months she repeatedly discussed with the Russian defenders the prospects for his cooperation with the investigation and again warned them that the information he had was steadily becoming outdated.
For 20 months, Seleznev did not tell her anything, but after he was convicted, he again expressed a desire to meet with prosecutors and provide them with information. These meetings took place on March 28 and 29 of this year, that is, not long before the verdict, which Seleznev hoped to reduce in this way.
“Unfortunately,” prosecutors shrug, “he didn’t have any particularly valuable information.” Seleznev admitted that he was guilty, and pointed to the people with whom he traded on forums for carders. He also named some accomplices with whom they did business from 2006 until his arrest in 2014.
“However,” prosecutors say, “most of the information they provided was already well known to the Secret Service.” The data that Seleznev shared with them was of historical interest, but could no longer help law enforcement officers in their current work. In other words, a good spoon for dinner.
Letter from the dungeons
As it is clear from the records of the Russian’s telephone conversations with his father, State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party Valery Seleznev, and girlfriend Anna Otisko, there was a time when they pinned their hopes on the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
But Trump did not live up to these expectations. The prosecutor's office saw no reason to ask the judge to reduce Seleznev Jr.'s sentence for belated cooperation, and then he turned to the judge with a tearful letter.
He tells in broken English about his difficult childhood in Vladivostok, where his parents separated when the boy was 2 years old and he grew up with an alcoholic mother. One day he found her drowned in the bathtub.
Roman had an early interest in and talent for computing. He entered the path of computer crime and began to prosper. One day, bandits broke into him, who tortured him all night and forced him to give up all the money and passwords. So he decided to acquire real estate in Bali.
While on vacation in Morocco, he became a victim of a shahid who exploded nearby, lost a fair part of his skull, which is now being replaced by a titanium plate, and spent several months in a Moscow hospital.
"There was no justice today"
He was again drawn into computer crime, but the arrest saved him from further sliding down an inclined plane.
The 11-page letter ends: “Today I am alive and thank God and the government of the United States of America. Before my arrest, I was rolling down a very dangerous road. Thank you very much. R. S."
The prosecutor's office did not find the letter convincing and appears to have been right. After Judge Jones sentenced Seleznev to 27 years, Litvak's lawyer read out his written statement, in which there are no more thanks to the United States. And there is this:
“I was abducted by the USA and they know it is true,” writes the condemned. “I respect and understand the need for justice, but there was no justice today.”
Criminal cases have been filed against him in two more states. The local federal prosecutors are now deciding whether to try Seleznev.
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Roman Seleznev is ill with hepatitis B, which he contracted as a result of a blood transfusion
Russian Roman Seleznev was sentenced in the United States for cybercrime to another 14 years in prison, which he will serve simultaneously with 27 years in prison he received in April in Washington State.
Seleznev's appeal in the Washington case is currently being considered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
His current sentence relates to criminal cyberfraud cases brought against him in Nevada and Georgia. On September 7, the 33-year-old native of Vladivostok pleaded guilty in both cases in exchange for a promise from the prosecutor's office not to require more than 168 months, that is, 14 years in prison.
In anticipation of the verdict, the Russian lawyer, Igor Litvak, sent a voluminous document to the federal judge asking him not to give Seleznev more than 108 months in prison.
Defense Arguments
It is noteworthy that, unlike the Russian Foreign Ministry and the father of his client, State Duma deputy from the LDPR Valery Seleznev, Litvak did not claim in his petition that Seleznev Jr. was abducted in the Maldives, from where he was taken first to Guam and then to Seattle where he heard his first sentence.
Seleznev is currently in the bullpen in Atlanta. On November 7, Litvak sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Prison Service requesting that Seleznev be placed in prison at Fort Dix in New Jersey, where a significant Russian contingent is held, including pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who is serving a 20-year sentence in the United States for conspiracy to cocaine smuggling.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Roman Seleznev's father, State Duma deputy from the LDPR Valery Seleznev, claimed that his son was kidnapped in the MaldivesThe lawyer said that Seleznev, who was seriously wounded in Marrakech during the 2011 terrorist attack, was diagnosed with epilepsy, and a titanium plate covers 30% of his skull. He also has hepatitis B, which he contracted as a result of a blood transfusion.
Therefore, Seleznev needs qualified treatment, and the Fort Dix prison has an agreement with good medical institutions.
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Litvak also notes that his law office is located in New York, and Fort Dix is located not far from the city, so it will be easier for Seleznev to communicate with his lawyer from there during the appeal.
This time, the prosecutor's office did not submit a response petition with counterarguments to the court.
In Nevada, Seleznev was accused of operating the Carder.su website, which traded other people's credit card details and personal data. According to the calculations of the prosecution, the damage caused to them is 50.1 million dollars.
Carder.su was liquidated during the Open Market operation. 55 people were brought to justice, 33 of whom were convicted, and the rest are either awaiting trial or are on the run.
In Georgia, a Russian was charged with hacking a large company and stealing debit card numbers, which allowed fraudsters in November 2008 to withdraw a total of $9.4 million from thousands of ATMs in 280 cities around the world in just 12 hours.
2 million of them went to Seleznev personally, the prosecution claimed.
Difficult childhood
Litvak's petition begins with a story about Seleznev's difficult childhood, whose parents separated when he was 2 years old. He and his mother lived in a communal apartment with four other families, his mother, Irina Goroshenko, was an alcoholic and died of alcohol poisoning when he was 17, "and there was no one to help him bury her."
Having taken a job in a small computer store, Seleznev, deprived of relatives who could put him on the right path, turned to cybercrime.
The lawyer tells how in 2009 Seleznev was broken into by robbers who tortured him all night to find out where he was hiding money. He had to take refuge in Bali for a while.
In 2011, he flew to Morocco to meet his father after years of separation, and was involved in a terrorist attack. The lawyer is enclosing a letter from the local king Mohammed VI, who wishes Seleznev a speedy recovery.
His wife Svetlana Zharova, with whom he signed three years earlier and has a daughter, Eva, left him at the moment when she decided that after the injuries received in Morocco, he would not be able to return to a normal life, and soon filed for divorce.
In 2013, Seleznev was engaged to Anna Otisko, with whom he was vacationing in the Maldives, when he was detained on July 5, 2015 by the local border guards and quickly handed over to the Americans. According to Litvak, she and her four-year-old daughter Anastasia "love him and swore that they would wait for his release and return to Russia."
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Civil wife of Roman Seleznev Anna OtiskoThe lawyer notes that all Seleznev's accomplices in the Nevada case received less than him. Alexander Kostyukov, for example, was sentenced to 108 months in prison, and Kasir Mukhtar to 24 months. The remaining convicts received from 24 to 60 months. Only one was sentenced to 150 months.
In Georgia, the picture is the same: there sentences range from 30 months to 135. Giving Seleznev 168, which prosecutors insist on, means violating the principle of proportionality of sentences, Litvak said.
Letters are attached to his request, in which close people ask the judge to show leniency towards Seleznev. They characterize him as a "kind-hearted, modest, positive, unselfish and very honest person", "a true friend" and "a very responsible and caring father".
Given that the judge sentenced Seleznev to the maximum, the letters did not make the desired impression on him.
Member of the faction of the Political Party LDPR - the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy.
Valery Seleznev was born on September 5, 1964 in the city of Vladivostok. After school, he worked as an acoustic test operator in the diesel assembly shop of a military unit. In 1986 he graduated from the Far Eastern Institute of Soviet Trade (now the Pacific State Economic University) with a degree in Trade Economics.
Even at a young age, Valery lost his right arm as a result of an injury and became disabled. Nevertheless, he continued to work at the construction and production site, managed enterprises in the economic sector, and implemented several large infrastructure projects.
In 1994, Valery Seleznev started doing business, in 1998 he was the general director of the Australian Food Company, in 1999 he was a member of the board of directors of Primorsky Confectioner OJSC, in 2002 he became president of Fatherland LLC. He was also the owner of Vladivostok-City LLC, Rodina LLC, Teatralnoe LLC, Direct Sales Studio LLC, Capital-SV LLC, Antalya LLC.
In 2007, Valery Sergeevich became a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation, having been elected as part of the federal list of LDPR candidates in Primorsky Krai. Member of the LDPR faction. In the Duma of the fifth convocation, he was a member of the Property Committee, supervised the areas of lawmaking related to anti-raiding and bankruptcy. Since April 2009, he has been a member of the Duma Committee on International Affairs.
In December 2011, Seleznev was elected to the State Duma of the sixth convocation as part of the top ten of the LDPR federal list. Elected to the post of First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Property Issues.
In the State Duma of the fifth convocation, Seleznev created the Inter-Factional Deputy Association (MDO) of the State Duma for the Affairs of the Disabled. The purpose of the association was to promote the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. As a co-chairman of the MDO, Seleznev joined the efforts of deputies from different factions to solve the problems of people with disabilities in Russia, to implement the State Target Program "Accessible Environment".
Also, Seleznev established and headed the Fund for Assistance in the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities "Accessible Environment and Universal Design". He spoke in support of the construction of a high-speed railway line VSM Moscow - Kazan.
Seleznev is a member of the Coordinating Council for the Disabled under the Government of the Moscow Region, a member of the Expert Council under the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, a member of the working group on interaction between the CEC of Russia and all-Russian public organizations of the disabled and the section on ensuring the electoral rights of persons with disabilities at the CEC of Russia , member of the Working Group for the preparation of the State Council, member of the Public Council for the development of high-speed and high-speed communication in the Russian Federation.
In the elections on September 18, 2016, Seleznev Valery Sergeevich was elected a Deputy of the State Duma of the VII, as part of the federal list of candidates put forward by the Political Party "Liberal Democratic Party of Russia". Member of the faction of the Political Party LDPR - the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy. The date of commencement of powers is October 5, 2016.