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Article 60
 
Article 60. Supervisory and Auditing Services
1. For the purposes of supervision over proper spending of funds allocated to commissions for the preparation and conduct of an election, a referendum, and over sources, proper accounting, and use of electoral funds, referendum funds, for auditing of financial documents of candidates, electoral associations, electoral blocs, referendum initiative groups, for verification of information provided by candidates under Clause, Article 33 of this Federal Law about their property, income and sources thereof, for supervision over the return of budgetary funds allocated by relevant election commissions to electoral funds of candidates, electoral associations, electoral blocs, supervisory and auditing services shall be established.
2. Supervisory and auditing services shall be established under the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, the election commissions of subjects of the Russian Federation, district election commissions for elections of federal bodies of state power, and in cases established by law, and under other commissions managers and experts from state and other bodies and institutions, including the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation, main offices (national banks) of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in subjects of the Russian Federation may be retained. The said bodies and institutions, at the request of the relevant election commission and not later than one month after the publication of the decision on calling (holding) an election, a referendum, shall send their specialists to and put them at the disposal of the commissions. In this case, specialists shall be assigned to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, the election commission of a subject of the Russian Federation for periods of at least five months, and to district election commissions, for periods of at least three months.
3. For the periods of their work in supervisory and auditing services, specialists referred to in Clause 2 of this article shall be relieved from their main work and retain their jobs, salaries, and other benefits at their main place of work, and they may receive additional compensations out of the funds allocated for the preparation and conduct of elections and referendums.