Echis-Baldir Nurzat, deputy of the Supreme Khural (parliament) of the Republic of Tuva from United Russia, shot a man while hunting, Baza reports .
According to the publication, Nurzat went hunting with two more men to the area of the village of Naryn. At the same time, the hunters took thermal imagers with them, during the incident Nurzat used the device. The deputy saw an object at a distance of about a hundred meters and fired a gun. Arriving at the place, the hunters found the body, after which they themselves called law enforcement officers.
A criminal case was initiated against the deputy under the article “Causing death by negligence”. He is in the republic on bail.
In April 2022, the court sentenced State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin to three years probation in the case of illegal deer hunting. Rashkin shot an elk in a hunting farm in the Saratov region, without a license to shoot animals. After that, the deputy butchered the carcass and hid it in the trunk of the car. The deputy himself at first claimed that he accidentally found the carcass, but then confessed to the murder.