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In a report tabled in parliament the Police Integrity Commission says the pair carried out fake searches of tobacconists where they seized illegal tobacco which they later planned to sell.
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09 February 2007
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Russian police to focus on cor
Russian police will focus on the fight against corruption, as “its current scope poses a real threat to the national security,” Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said in an interview published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday and timed to a meeting of top police brass from all over the country.
In 2006 police exposed some 37 thousand corruption crimes and 10 thousand people faced criminal responsibility.
Nurgaliyev said high-ranking federal and local self-government officials were most corrupt, and proposed to revise the immunity they enjoy.
“High-ranking representatives of bodies of state authority and local self-government more frequently figure among corrupted officials, while the crimes they commit are mostly rated as grave and inflict considerable detriment to the state,” the minister said.
“It is necessary to establish a special order of instituting and investigating criminal cases and bringing representatives of top bodies of authority and other officials to responsibility,” Nurgaliyev said and proposed to follow German and French example and introduce the procedure of parliamentary investigation.
The minister said an anti-corruption bill had been submitted to the State Duma, which envisages a life ban for convicted corrupted officials to occupy state and government positions.
Nurgaliyev also called to engage the public in the fight against corruption. “For this it is necessary to streamline the mechanism of protecting citizens, who report about bribes specifically in state bodies of authority, to draft protection programs for them, establish ‘hot telephone lines’ to collect and analyze such information,” he said.
Another priority is the fight against terrorism and organized crime. Nurgaliyev said his ministry succeeded in suppressing the wave of terrorist acts in the country in the past three years. Last year there were 112 such crimes, which is a one-third decrease, and 86 were exposed.
The minister estimated there were 450 major organized criminal groups in the country numbering a total of 12 thousand people. Nurgaliyev divided them into specifically dangerous groups with international connections, interregional groups (close to 50), and local organized groups.
He promised police will target their leaders and activists in the coming two years and will work to undermine the economic base of the organized crime. 237 economic facilities have been freed from criminal pressure and extortion and 161 criminal enterprises have been shut down.
The minister said the “mafia is immortal” stereotype is being ruined. In 2006 over 1.5 thousand criminal cases were launched against nearly two thousand activists of organized crime, including 780 criminal bosses.
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