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The head of the Central election Commission (CEC), Ella Pamfilova said that none of the current deputies of the state Duma of the seventh convocation had dual citizenship at the time of registration candidates in 2016. Further verification beyond the competence of the CEC, she concluded. About it reports on Thursday, July 30, “Interfax”.

“we Have no way to independently verify the candidates, we will sent requests to the Federal tax service, the Central Bank, the Federal migration service of the Ministry of internal Affairs for compliance with the seekers of parliamentary seats to the requirements of the law,” — said Pamfilova.

The head of the CEC reminded of the presumption of trust, stressing that the candidate is legally liable for the provided data. According to her, if the person has been admitted to the elections, at the time of registration the electoral Commission had no data about the presence of his dual citizenship.

“What happened in the next four years — we can’t know we have neither the capacity nor the authority, and it’s not in our jurisdiction, verification of existing deputies,” — said Pamfilova.

On the eve of the state Duma, included in the request to the CEC for review data on the possible presence of foreign citizenship or residence permit, commented on the situation. So, the Chairman of the Committee on foreign Affairs, member of the Commission on control over reliability of data on incomes of deputies Irina Rodnina has neither confirmed nor denied the information about second passport, explaining that to her anyway, “no one believes”. She stressed that the final answer to this question will give the CEC.

In the list there are the names of Irina Rodnina, Alexander Zhukov, Otari of Arshba, Vyacheslav Fetisov, and other parliamentarians. Just there mentioned 14 deputies.

Earlier, the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin has instructed the Committee for security and combating corruption and the Commission on control over reliability of data on income and on questions of Deputy ethics to request the CEC information about the possible presence of a dual citizenship of some members.