Sergei Ryabukhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, announced on February 2 that senators are planning to amend the second reading of the presidential bill “On Citizenship of the Russian Federation”, providing for the withdrawal of Russian citizenship from persons who previously received it and deportation to their homeland for illegal production or trafficking of surrogate alcohol.
“We want to add (to the list of crimes the commission of which entails the termination of Russian citizenship. – Ed.) illegal production and circulation of alcoholic products, which lead to fatal consequences, serious consequences for the health of citizens or for the country’s budgetary and financial system. Deportation measures should also be taken against such citizens, we also offer this, ”TASS quotes him as saying.
According to him, persons who are engaged in the production and circulation of surrogate alcohol in the territories of garages and industrial zones are foreign citizens from neighboring countries in 75% of cases.
Ryabukhin added that the amendments would be submitted to the State Duma if they were approved by the Interior Ministry, so he made a corresponding request to Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
Last year, cases of mass poisoning with surrogate alcohol took place in different regions of the Russian Federation.
So, on October 7, it became known about a fatal alcohol poisoning in the Orenburg region in the Dombarovsky district. The incident left 11 people dead and three others injured. According to doctors, methanol was found in the blood of the dead, while the concentration of the substance was several times higher than the lethal dose for humans.
On October 15, it became known that in Yekaterinburg 18 people died from methyl alcohol poisoning. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Sale of goods and products that do not meet the requirements of the safety of life or health of consumers, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence.”
The next day, two men were detained, suspected of manufacturing and selling surrogate alcohol. On October 20, FSB officers detained two more residents of Yekaterinburg, they are natives of Georgia and Azerbaijan. They are also suspected of selling surrogate alcohol. The third suspect was detained on 21 October. On that day, the judge of the Chkalovsky District Court charged the three defendants in the case with a preventive measure in the form of detention for two months.
Mass poisoning occurred over several days. The latest figures put the total death toll at 35.
A month later, the investigating authorities opened a criminal case after poisoning 11 young people in Kazan with methanol. Victims born in 1999-2003 were hospitalized in a state of varying severity.
Source: IZ
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