Over two years, more than 25,000 officials were prosecuted for corruption crimes.
This was said by the head of the department for monitoring the implementation of anti-corruption legislation of the Prosecutor General's Office, Victor Baldin, TASS reports.
"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 noted.
According to Baldin, the security forces identify more than 40,000 corruption crimes every year, about 60% of which are related to bribery.
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