The Supreme Court removed businessman Dmitry Potapenko from the State Duma elections due to foreign assets. He has shares in Yandex and Sberbank

At the suit of the Central Election Commission, the Supreme Court removed from the elections to the State Duma a candidate from the Russian Freedom and Justice Party (RPSS), businessman Dmitry Potapenko. About this “Interfax” told in the press service of the court.

The CEC asked the Supreme Court to cancel the registration of Potapenko, as well as a number of other already registered candidates, in connection with the receipt of information about the presence of foreign financial instruments in them.

In the case of Potapenko, he explained himself, we are talking about shares in Yandex and Sberbank, acquired through brokerage firms. Sberbank shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange, while Yandex securities are traded on the NASDAQ. Earlier, for these reasons, eight candidates have already been removed from the elections. Some of them held single shares in Apple, Pfizer and Intel.

The first candidate removed from the current State Duma elections for owning foreign assets was the director of the Lenin State Farm Pavel Grudinin. In July, the CEC removed him from the federal list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on the basis of information from the Prosecutor General’s Office that he owns shares in Bonto, registered in Belize.