
Now the Federation Council has approved a draft law, according to which the Ministry of Defense will have to transfer non-core real estate in both capitals (Moscow and St. Petersburg) for free. The state registration of the transfer of real estate from the military department to the municipality will be carried out in 10-day period. This will reduce the cost of the state budget, which are associated with the transfer of real estate from one hand to another.
Obviously, representatives of the Upper House of Parliaments decided to take such a step in connection with a series of corruption scandals. The draft law is aimed at the fact that now there should be no misinterpretations about the incorrect assessment of non-core real estate, which the defendants in the case of embezzlement in the main military department pay attention to today. It is difficult to say how much this bill will cut off the oxygen to corrupt officials, but one thing is clear that the transfer of more than 1,5 to thousands of outlets and catering enterprises will not definitely bring income to the municipal defense fund. Namely, such a number of objects in the near future were going to sell the Ministry of Defense.