Weekly “Arguments and facts” № 35. What is the future of Siberia? 09/01/2021
The Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation recorded a record number of corruption offenses detected in 8 years & mdash; 24.5 thousand
Compared to last year, their number increased by 16.5%, according to the report of the Department on the State of Crime in the Russian Federation for January & mdash; July 2021 Almost half (12.1 thousand) & mdash; facts of corruption. For 7 months it increased by 27.4% compared to the same period last year. In one in three cases, the amount of the bribe does not exceed 10,000 rubles. The number of petty bribes increased by 26%. The greatest number of such offenses was recorded in Perm (240, an increase of 3.3 times), Stavropol (169, an increase of 1.5 times) and St. Petersburg (135, an increase of 5 times). The damage caused by corruption-related crimes fell from 32.4 billion rubles to 39.4 billion rubles. In the first half of 2021 alone, 300 civil servants were dismissed for corruption offenses. “ In Russia there is a tendency for the total number of crimes of an economic nature to increase, '' & mdash; summarizes the General Prosecutor's Office. In the past seven months, their number has exceeded 78,000 and increased by almost 7,000 from the previous year.
Earlier, Attorney General Igor Krasnov confirmed that corruption detected in Russia is increasing for the second year in a row. “ Last year, 31,000 such acts were registered, & mdash; he said at a meeting at the Federation Council. & mdash; There has been a significant increase in the number of crimes committed by organized groups (by 17%) linked to & bdquo; bribes & ldquo; in the area of procurement (74%) and corruption (11%). & # 39; & # 39;