State Duma deputy from Krasnodar Krai Voronovsky has resigned his mandate.

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Anatoly Voronovsky, who is being investigated for bribery on an especially large scale, has filed for early resignation from his position as a State Duma deputy.

Voronovsky made this decision after the State Duma approved the stripping of his parliamentary immunity on November 11, following a request from the prosecutor's office.

On November 13, a criminal case was opened against Voronovsky for bribery on an especially large scale (Part 6, Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), but he was not detained. According to investigators, he committed the crime before receiving his parliamentary mandate, in 2019-2020, when he was deputy governor of the Krasnodar Territory and oversaw the road sector, RBC reported on November 24.

Voronovsky was elected to the State Duma in 2021 on the United Russia party list for the Krasnodar Territory; he serves on the State Duma Committee on Transport.

Investigators allege that Voronovsky received bribes in the form of property and services from Safarbiy Napso, director of the Krasnodar Territory unitary enterprise "Dagomys Road Repair and Construction Department." The total cost of the services Voronovsky received is estimated at more than 25 million rubles. This includes an apartment in Krasnodar registered to the mother of his assistant, renovations and furnishings at the home of the deputy's son in Sochi, construction of a dam and lake cleanup in the Ust-Labinsky district on land owned by the deputy's family, and the purchase of agricultural equipment for Voronovsky's relatives. A criminal case has been opened under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Russian Criminal Code (accepting a bribe on an especially large scale), Kommersant reports.

Napso confessed as part of a pre-trial cooperation agreement with the prosecutor's office, and his criminal prosecution for corruption was dropped.

Previously, "Caucasian Knot" reported that at the end of October, a Sochi court sentenced Safarbiy Napso, former director of the Dagomys Road Repair and Construction Department, to four years in prison, finding him guilty of embezzling company property. The convicted man is the cousin of former Russian State Duma deputy Yuri Napso.

At the end of May, the court upheld the decision of State Duma deputies who voted to early strip Yuri Napso of his parliamentary powers. His representative claimed that Napso was stripped of his mandate due to an incorrect calculation of his absences from work. On October 8, it was announced that the Sochi Central District Court upheld the prosecutor's office's claim and seized in favor of the state approximately 60 properties, which, according to the court, belong to Yuri Napso or his relatives. This decision has been appealed to a higher court, Napso's lawyer said.