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Corruption Up in Russian Army
Losses from corruption in the Russian Army this year have topped 2 billion rubles, Interfax reported on Monday, citing an interview with Alexander Sorochkin, head of the military investigations department of the prosecutor’s investigative committee, which will be published on Tuesday in Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper. Sorochkin said that charges were pressed against 21 officers in the Russian Army this year. Eighteen of them involved corruption. Eight of them have already reached the courts.
Sorochkin’s department has determined that the number of corruption-related crimes in the military has increased by a third this year to 1400, causing 2.2 billion rubles in damages. Sorochkin noted that almost three-quarters of the corruption-related crimes in the military took place in the Army. About another 12 percent took place in the Emergencies Ministry, 8 percent in the internal forces and about 4 percent in the FSB border service. “Abuse of authority is the clear leader,” Sorochkin said. “That accusation is made against practically every third figure in the investigations.” He added that there was very little corruption in the staff of generals.
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Photo: Sergey Kiselev