The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the former deputy chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Aleksashenko on the wanted list

This week, a State Duma commission demanded that the economist’s activities be checked for treason due to his participation in the working group that deals with sanctions against Russia Sergei Aleksashenko

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the economist and former deputy chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Aleksashenko on the wanted list (the Ministry of Justice recognized him as a foreign agent), it follows from the department’s database.

Aleksashenko is wanted under an article of the Criminal Code, but the ministry did not specify under which one.

On November 15, the State Duma commission to investigate the facts of interference of foreign states in the affairs of Russia asked the Prosecutor General's Office to check the activities of Aleksashenko and economist Sergei Guriev (also recognized as a foreign agent) for treason. The reason was their participation in the working group at Stanford University, which is developing sanctions against Russia.

The chairman of the commission, deputy Vasily Piskarev, called the group’s activities “gross interference in internal affairs and a violation of the economic sovereignty of Russia” with the aim of causing harm to the country and citizens. The deputy noted that treason includes “providing advisory and other assistance to a foreign state in activities directed against the security of Russia.”

The international sanctions group, headed by former US Ambassador to Russia, Stanford University professor Michael McFaul and head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andrei Ermak, was created shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine . She presented proposals for restrictive measures against Moscow several times.

Aleksashenko was Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia from 1993 to 1995, and for the next three years he served as First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank. In September 1998, he resigned. Since December 2008, he has been Director of Macroeconomic Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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In 2013, Aleksashenko left for the United States to work at Georgetown University, at the same time he spoke about the pressure on him after criticizing the state of the Russian economy. In 2017, MK, citing sources, wrote about opening a case against the economist under the article on smuggling of cultural property - according to the publication, he tried to take orders from the USSR times out of the country. Aleksashenko did not comment on this information.

In July, the Ministry of Justice included the economist in the register of foreign agents, stating that he disseminated false information about the decisions and policies of the authorities, “participated as a respondent on information platforms provided by foreign agents and foreign media.”