Navalny Exposes Another MP

Federation Council Senator Vitaly Malkin has become the latest lawmaker to be targeted by anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny for unethical behavior, amid mounting speculation that the upper house of parliament would also be hit by resignations. In a blog post Thursday, Navalny published documents showing that Malkin had failed to declare ownership of 111 condominiums in Canada and that he has an Israeli passport (under the name of Avihur Ben Bar). Russian MPs are not allowed to hold foreign citizenship.  A colorful businessman who made a fortune in banking in the 1990s together with current Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, Malkin has been a senator for the remote Siberian republic of Buryatia since 2004. Last summer, Malkin made headlines when he traveled to Washington as part of a group of senators who lobbied Congress against adopting the so-called Magnitsky Act that imposes U.S. sanctions on Russian officials implicated in human rights violations. The speculation about the senator exodus comes on the heels of a string of resignations of State Duma deputies after accusations of either undeclared property or illegal business activity. Five lawmakers have quit the parliament so far, among them the Duma's ethics committee head, Vladimir Pekhtin, who left last month after Navalny published documents showing that he owned luxury real estate in Florida.

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