The Prosecutor General's Office recognized Transparency International as an “undesirable organization”

The Prosecutor General's Office has recognized Transparency International as an “undesirable organization,” according to the department’s telegram channel.

According to the prosecutor's office, the organization "poses a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order" of Russia by "interfering in the internal affairs" of the country, "formally acting as an organization fighting corruption."

“The activities of this organization clearly go beyond the declared goals and objectives,” the department added.

Transparency International was created in 1993, and now the international organization has branches in more than one hundred countries. She conducted annual surveys on attitudes towards corruption in the world ( Corruption Perceptions Index ). Russia in the study over the past year took 137th place out of all 180 countries represented.

The Russian division of Transparency conducted anti-corruption investigations against deputies, officials and government procurement contractors. So, in 2016, it discovered that the former head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, who was then part of the government, had an apartment worth about 500 million rubles.

project The Transparency “Declarator” aggregated income and property declarations of officials from different sites. In 2021, deputy defense ministers were allowed not to publish reports , and in 2023, President Vladimir Putin allowed deputies and senators to publish declarations without personal data.

In 2009, with the support of Transparency, the Anti-Corruption Policy Laboratory was created at the Higher School of Economics. In 2018, after the departure of the head of the laboratory, Elena Panfilova, founder of Transparency International - Russia, they stopped collaborating.

The Russian branch of Transparency International was recognized as a “foreign agent” in 2015. In the fall of 2022, the status was assigned to the head of the department, Ilya Shumanov.