The Russian non-profit organization «Center for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiatives» Transparency International — R «has called on the Presidium of the Council for Countering Corruption under the President of Russia to check Tatyana Navka's compliance with anti-corruption legislation.
The wife of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov paid the mortgage for an apartment in the United States.
“This is a violation of the federal law prohibiting officials and their family members from using foreign financial instruments, including using loans and borrowings from foreign banks. As follows from the extract from the register of the New York Department of Finance, on March 9, 2020, Tatyana Navka paid off the mortgage for an apartment worth $ 1.17 million, located in Manhattan, «the organization said in a statement.
According to Grigory Mashanov, a lawyer for Transparency, if Tatyana Navka really paid off the foreign mortgage this year, and at the same time is still the wife of Dmitry Peskov, then Peskov himself should be dismissed from his post due to the loss of trust — “this is direct requirement No. 79-FZ «.
As RBC wrote in April 2019, Dmitry Peskov said that his wife had sold the Manhattan apartment.
“The apartment was on a mortgage. Now it has been sold, and the bank has returned its money, — Dmitry Peskov noted then to RBC. — With us, if you take an apartment on a mortgage, it is listed on the bank, and in the USA — on you. Therefore, de jure, the apartment was listed on her, but de facto she never had this apartment, because she (Navka) left America, came to live in Russia, and the apartment remained hanging in this mortgage. »
