The amount of bribes in the Russian Federation has tripled in a year
The total amount of bribes detected in Russia in 2017 amounted to 6.7 billion rubles, while in 2016 it was 2.3 billion rubles. Thus, almost three times more bribes were detected last year than a year earlier, Kommersant reports , citing information from the National Anti-Corruption Committee. In total, in 2017 in Russia, according to the committee, more than 2 million crimes were recorded, of which one and a half percent were corruption-related. This is 10% fewer crimes than in 2016.