Putin signed a decree according to which officials sent to the Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, as well as the military sent to occupy Ukraine, are exempted from the need to declare income.
A decree was also adopted, according to which seconded officials will receive a lump sum payment of 3 million rubles for sending them to Ukraine. Families in the event of their death will be paid 5 million rubles.
Declaration of income for Russian officials working in the occupied regions of Ukraine was not a problem before. In particular, the former prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, and now a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, United Russia Alexander Borodai declared 0 rubles of income in 2020. This did not prevent him from becoming the owner of luxury real estate in Dubai and Moscow.
Borodai, who, in coordination with Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, led the transfer of Russian security forces to the Donbass in 2014, in October 2015, a year after returning from Eastern Ukraine, bought an apartment in Moscow with a market value of more than 100 million rubles. In Dubai, he owned apartments on the Palm Jumeirah in the Grandeur Residences residential complex. The cost of such real estate in the UAE is 450 thousand euros or 37 million rubles, the team of Alexei Navalny found out. Borodai himself called the investigation a "fake" and "a very stupid and uncomplicated political provocation." Shortly after this investigation, the apartments were put up for sale.
