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Criminal Business Threatens Russia’s Development
The criminal business has turned into a real threat for social and economic reforms in Russia, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said at today’s meeting of enforcement leaders of the country.
Taken for Russia in general, the number of cleared crimes related to criminal laundering grew 7 percent in 2006. At the same time, only a bit more than 2,500 persons involved in such crimes were spotted past year, though roughly 8,000 crimes of that category were registered overall.
According to prosecutors, around 7 billion rubles was laundered under criminal cases in 2006. But the worth of seized assets of the accused stood at just 562.8 million rubles and assets worth 613.9 million rubles were withdrawn and voluntary returned to the state.
Fuel and energy industry witnessed 296 crimes past year, timber processing had 156 and 98 crimes related to alcohol turnover, Chaika said, emphasizing the high latency of laundering crimes, the absence of operating methods, the lack of required experience of detectives and the difficulty of finding proofs for such crimes.
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