The material damage from economic crimes in Russia in January-August 2026 amounted to 397.2 billion rubles. This is evidenced by statistical materials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to the department, for eight months, law enforcement agencies detected 86.3 thousand crimes in this category, which is 6.3% more than in the corresponding period in 2025, when 81.2 thousand such acts were recorded. The share of serious and particularly serious crimes in the total number of discovered economic crimes reached 71.4%. The damage indicator significantly exceeds the level of previous years: for January-August 2024 it was estimated at 237.6 billion rubles, for eight months of 2023 - at 194.6 billion rubles. The total material damage from all crimes in pre-investigated and suspended criminal cases in the months of January-August 2026 amounted to 570.5 billion rubles, which is 12.2% less than the corresponding period last year.
In just eight months of 2026, 1,016.4 thousand crimes were recorded, which is 16.6% less than a year earlier. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, in 2025, more than 180 billion rubles received as a result of corruption and economic crimes were returned to the state budget. Experts in the field of law point out that the increase in the detection of economic crimes reflects an increase in the efficiency of law enforcement authorities, and the dynamics of the damage require taking into account inflationary processes and changes in the structure of the crimes discovered.