More than 25,000 officials were prosecuted in Russia for corruption crimes in 2025-2026, said the head of the department for monitoring the implementation of anti-corruption legislation of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Viktor Baldin.
"During the past two years, over 25,000 officials have been brought to criminal responsibility. Over 20,000 crimes committed on a particularly large scale were identified, as well as almost 7,000 acts committed within organized groups or criminal communities," he cited data on the fight against corruption crimes.
According to him, thanks to the coordination measures taken by the prosecutor's office in recent years, the number of crimes detected by law enforcement exceeded 40,000 per year. Most of them are different types of bribery - about 60%, followed by fraud, abuse of power, commercial bribery and abuse of power.
Over the course of two years, 26,000 criminal cases of corruption offenses with approved indictments were sent to the courts.