MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Members of the Golos movement (designated as a foreign agent in Russia) were attempting to disable video surveillance in Russia’s presidential election, Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova said.

"Several, say, remarkable representatives of the Golos public movement for fair elections, which has been designated a foreign agent here, that is, those who moved abroad, set up a network to knock out video surveillance," Pamfilova said in remarks at the CEC information center.

She added that she would not give any names. According to the information available to the CEC, these people in particular began contacting election commission members, presenting themselves as representatives of various political parties, to request assistance in purchasing accounts that would enable controlling the system for conducting video surveillance of the election process.

"They offered good money for that and even promised to help their accomplices relocate to Spain, a good Western country, and get a job there," Pamfilova added.

According to her, the perpetrators planned to hand control over such accounts to overseas-based IT experts in order to disable video surveillance. "They would have changed the picture and done other things like that. I won’t go into the details but there was an entire, wide-ranging scheme. However, we also managed to prevent it from happening," the CEC chair stressed.