Russian soldiers and officials deployed in Ukraine will no longer be required to declare their income, the Kremlin announced on Friday, under an exemption from anti-corruption laws at a time when Moscow is increasing incentives to go out and fight.
“These are those who work in the (four) territories,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, referring to the four Ukrainian regions (Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia) to which Moscow claims the responsibility of the annexation – however, completely. controlling them, and where most of the fighting currently takes place.
The measure also applies to “spouses and minor children”
This Thursday night, the Russian government published a decree by President Vladimir Putin on “the details” of the anti-corruption rules “for certain citizens during the special military operation” in Ukraine.
According to this text, the military, police and members of the security services operating in Ukraine, as well as other officials sent there, no longer have “the obligation to provide information on their income, expenses, assets.”
The measure also applies to the “spouses and minor children” of the affected people and is retroactive from February 24, 2022, the date of the start of the offensive in Ukraine.
various incentives
Furthermore, those concerned are now entitled to receive “rewards and donations” if they are “of a humanitarian nature” and “have been received in connection with participation in the military operation” in Ukraine.
This new provision is part of the Kremlin’s incentive measures to push the Russians to go out and fight in Ukraine: promise of significant bonuses, banking and real estate facilities, financial aid to families in case of death or injury, etc.
In Russia, military personnel and officials close to the military-industrial complex are regularly convicted in high-profile embezzlement and corruption cases.
Source: BFM TV
