MOSCOW, October 8 (RAPSI) – Moscow prosecutors are probing Ronald McDonald House Charities at the request of State Duma lawmaker Andrei Krutov, Izvestia newspaper reports on Wednesday.

Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow Yury Kasatonov has reportedly notified the State Duma about the probe.

Krutov (A Just Russia party) filed a request with the Prosecutor General's Office seeking to investigate the financial activities of Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) to ensure compliance to the Russian law and to register the organisation as a foreign agent, Izvestia reported in September.

Despite the fact that the organisation’s name bears the word “charity,” it is not even listed as the organization’s activity in the documents which were filed with the Federal Tax Service, Krutov claims.

In August, consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor simultaneously inspected about 100 McDonald’s restaurants in Russia. Operations were suspended at about a dozen of restaurants, some of them were closed by court order.

As of late August, the operations at 12 restaurants were suspended in Russia over sanitary violations: four in Krasnodar (southern Russia), three in Moscow (including the first ever McDonald’s restaurant in Russia, on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street), one each in Serpukhov (Moscow Region), Stavropol (southern Russia) and Yekaterinburg (the Urals), and two in Sochi on the Black Sea coast.

McDonald’s, the world’s largest hamburger fast food chain, has over 430 restaurants in 75 Russian regions. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said that there were no plans for an inspection of the whole food chain in Russia.