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Russia’s Interpol Brought Back 100 Criminals in 3 Years
Russia’s National Central Bureau (NCB) of Interpol brought back to the country 100 criminals in the past three years, NCB chief Timur Lakhonin told reporters Wednesday as quoted by Rosbalt Agency.
This year, 143 persons hiding in foreign countries from enforcement bodies of Russia have been identified via Interpol. “It is twice as many as in 2005. In 2006, 53 were detained via Interpol; of them, only 23 were extradited or deported to Russia. It is slightly less than in previous years, but not everything is in our power in this case,” Lakhonin said.
Roughly 100 criminals were brought back from the foreign states in the past three years, according to Lakhonin. “As of December 1, the international wanted list specified 1105 accused and condemned persons being detected by the RF enforcement bodies, including 1040 for arresting and extraditing under the so-called red notices,” the official pointed out.
Interpol added 217 to the wanted list in 2006, including 38 under red notices. Of all on the wanted list, 178 are wanted on suspected murder and 85 on suspected involvement in terror actions, the official said.
Most actively, officers of Russia’s National Central Bureau cooperate with their colleagues from CIS and from Germany, Lithuania, Czechia, the United States and Greece. “In the past 16 years since creation, Interpol’s NCB handled more than a million documents of live data. NCB has cooperated with 130 states worldwide this year.”
Russia joined Interpol in 1990. NCB has affiliates in 69 constituent regions of the country. The concern of this organization is the criminal offence exclusively; it doesn’t deal with the crimes of political, military, religious or ethnic nature.
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