Constitutional Court Refuses to Support Deputy Minister

The Russian Constitutional Court denied consideration on the merits of the complaint of Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak, indicted of an attempt to steal $43 mln from the state budget. Investigators maintain that Storchak initiated the adoption of a federal statute allowing him to fraudulently obtain the budget money. The statute indeed had been adopted, but Storchak insists that the statute was completely legitimate and could not serve a theft tool. The general-jurisdiction court case is pending. In his complaint Storchak asked the Constitutional Court to check whether the questionable statute was constitutional and whether it had been adopted properly. However, the Constitutional Court refused to do it, pointing out that the statute “does not determine the legal situation of the applicant . . . and, therefore, does not violate his constitutional rights.”


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