Bastrykin: Damage to corruption amounted to 9 billion rubles

The damage from corruption in Russia over the past two years has amounted to more than 9 billion rubles. This was stated by the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin at the visiting meeting of the State Duma Committee on Security and Countering Corruption, the press service of the Investigative Committee reports .

According to Bastrykin, the amount of more than 4 billion rubles was seized on the property of the accused, the damage was reimbursed for the same amount. "Since 2011, 57 thousand criminal cases of corruption have been opened by the Investigative Committee and 22 thousand were sent to the court for consideration on the merits," he said.

Bastrykin also said that convictions are carried out in 99 percent of corruption cases that have reached the court. However, in most cases, bribe takers are now sentenced to fines. At the same time, the assigned amounts are still refused to pay. Only one percent of the appointed fines was paid, the head of the TFR noted.

Bastrykin also recalled the initiatives previously proposed by the Investigative Committee. Among them is the introduction of criminal liability of legal entities, counteracting the withdrawal of capital abroad through "one -day companies", the fight against financial pyramids.

"Today, at the state level, maximum efforts are being made to ensure our law enforcement officers, including the Investigative Committee with sufficient legal tools to combat corruption," said Irina Yarovaya, chairman of the Duma committee at the meeting.

On Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin created in his administration a separate department for combating corruption . The body was headed by Oleg Blory, who had previously been the acting head of the Presidential Administration on public service and personnel.

Previously, the powers to combat corruption were distributed between the control department and the state legal administration. At the same time, an individual commission under the leadership of the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov was checked by the officials of the officials.

At the end of October, Putin stated thathe intended to continue to fight corruption . "We will continue to be in the most serious way, I repeat once again, regardless of office and party affiliation, to tear out this infection with the root. Let everyone know about it," the president said.

On December 3, the International Organization of Transparency International has published the annual rating "Corruption Perception Index", in which Russia took 127th of 177 seats . On November 27, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said that since the beginning of the year, 3,600 officials have been convicted of corruption crimes; 59 thousand officials are brought to disciplinary and administrative responsibility.

In 2012-2013, several large criminal cases related to corruption were instituted in Russia, including the theft of 15 billion rubles at the APEC-2012 summit, the Obornservice case (damage, according to the investigation, 4 billion rubles), the fraud case in the implementation of the GLONASS project for more than 100 million rubles, and a number of others.