Corruption needs to be corrected

The amount of damage from corruption in Russia over 2.5 years, that is, since the beginning of 2015, exceeded 130 billion rubles. Such data in an interview with Gazeta.ru was presented by the head of the Department for Supervision of the implementation of the legislation on countering the corruption of the Russian Prosecutor General Alexander Rusetsky.

Rusetsky says that, according to statistics, the share of material damage from corruption from year to year is about 10% of the amount of damage from all types of crimes in Russia. “Over the past three and a half years, more than 45 thousand people have been convicted of committing corruption crimes, of which 4.5 thousand were officials of law enforcement agencies. During the same period, convicts for corruption cases were carried out against more than 400 deputies of representative bodies of the regional and municipal level, ”he said.

Rusetsky also noted that one of the main reasons for the growth of the number of violations identified is the development of anti -corruption legislation.

It should be noted that at the end of July, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said that in half a year 2017 about 18.5 thousand corruption crimes were detected, which is 14% less than in the same period of 2016. It is likely that such a sharp decrease occurred due to amendments to the Criminal Code, now the concept of “petty bribery” has appeared, which belongs to the sum of bribes of less than 10 thousand rubles and it was transferred to the category of crimes of small severity. As a result, such matters began to engage in less.

Yuri Chaika, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation

In any case, the prosecutor’s data is the result of the investigation of criminal cases, it is obvious that the real damage from corruption at times, or even an order of magnitude more.

Meanwhile, the government has developed amendments to the Law on Countering Corruption. On Thursday, Kommersant writes on Thursday. The Ministry of Labor proposes to create the National Corruption Prevention Council and expert centers on its base. If the proposal of the department is accepted, then they will be entrusted with supervision of how effective are measures to combat corruption in enterprises with state participation.

According to the authors of the project, the new structure should receive serious powers to control the business with state participation. The National Council will create criteria for evaluating "sufficient measures to prevent corruption in the organization." Expert centers accredited by the Council will be checked. Moreover, the volume of work both in business and for inspectors can significantly grow.

The bill obliges employers to develop and approve the documents “aimed at preventing corruption in all areas of activity of the organization” by local regulatory acts, at least once every two years to evaluate corruption risks, “organize the annual declaration of conflict of interest by employees”. The law proposed "to ensure cooperation with state control bodies and law enforcement agencies on countering corruption."

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It is proposed to give the National Council the right to consider “draft regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation on issues of corruption”, accept conclusions and send them to the relevant state bodies responsible for the development and adoption of acts. “In order to take into account the opinion of the business, we agreed with the Russian Council of Ministers and the RSPP that anti-corruption standards will be developed by the business community, to undergo a procedure for approval by the National Council for the prevention of corruption and then approved by the federal state body,” the Minister of Labor Maxim Topilin said on Wednesday. It is precisely his department is responsible for anti -corruption work in the government.