Career Vladimir Pekhtin

1 career

1.1 engineering career
1.2 political career

1.2.1 corruption scandal


1.3 later career

career
engineering career

from 1982 1989, pekhtin worked @ kolyma hydroelectric station, rising deputy director position. 1992 1997, general director of kolymaenergo, subsidiary of rushydro. served on board of electric holding company rao ues 1997 1998.

political career

pekhtin ran state duma in 1993, lost election. in 1994, became deputy in first convocation of magadan regional duma.

pekhtin elected 3rd convocation of state duma in 1999. headed united russia party in state duma april 2001 december 2003. on 29 march 2003, pekhtin elected member of supreme council of united russia party. pekhtin reelected fourth convocation of state duma in december 2003. became deputy chairman of state duma , first deputy head of united russia party. in 2007, elected fifth convocation of state duma.

pekhtin supervised kremlin s cis election observation mission 2008 parliamentary election in belarus. while state-controlled media labelled opposition leaders traitors, several of whom imprisoned belarusian kgb, pekhtin said of recent elections in former soviet republics democratic , fair. contradicted conclusions of osce, saying made up, invented it, try show there kind of rot.

in 2012, pekhtin became chairman of state duma s ethics committee.

pekhtin supported 2013 dima yakovlev law, barred citizens adopting russian orphans.

corruption scandal

on 30 august 2012, duma deputy dmitry gudkov published livejournal post entitled gold pretzels: united russia . post mentioned pekhtin 1 of individuals discrepancies between declared income , value of property. on 31 august, kommersant published article real estate transactions that, according opposition, part of well-disguised commercial project sell land state construction of highway @ profit of 75 million rubles. comparison of pekhtin s 2010 , 2011 declarations showed in 2011 purchased @ least 3 plots of land in st. petersburg worth on 25 million rubles.

in 2011, pekhtin had declared income of 2.15 million rubles. declaration indicated , wife owned 9 plots of land, 2 apartments, 2 houses, 2 non-residential buildings, , 5 cars (a porsche cayenne, toyota land cruiser, , 3 mercedes-benz) personal watercraft , snowmobiles.

on 12 february 2013, alexei navalny, based on publicly available real estate data, reported on pekhtin s link real estate in miami worth $2.5 million. according documents, pekhtin owned apartment in flamingo south beach condominium , land in florida. apartment purchased $540,000 in 2007 , land $120,000. published contracts indicated half of real estate owned son, alexei pekhtin. son owned apartment in residential complex @ 1500 ocean drive. prior december 2012, half of $1.27 million apartment owned elder pekhtin.

pekhtin resigned state duma on 20 february 2013, following revelations alexei navalny owned on $1.3 million of undeclared real estate in florida. both anatoly lomakin , vasily tolstopyatov resigned shortly after pekhtin.

later career

pekhtin became member of management board of rushydro in april 2013. became director general of rushydro hydrotechnology institute lenhydroproject in march 2014.