A meeting of the Russia’s Investigative Committee Board “On the practice of considering crime reports and investigating criminal cases connected with children trafficking, their involvement in prostitution, murders of minors including disguised as disappearance, and on efficiency of cooperation with operative and search divisions in revealing, solving and investigating such crimes” has been held at the Russia’s Investigative Committee.
The meeting chaired by Alexander Bastrykin was attended Children’s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, members of the Investigative Committee Board, Investigative Committee Public Council and Advisor Council on assisting orphans and children deprived of parental care, heads and employees of the Committee’s Central Office, Investigative Committee Academy, heads of investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee and invited guests.
In his welcoming address Mr. Bastrykin noted that “in general in 2013 the Russia’s Investigative Committee investigated over 17 thousand (17,014) crimes committed against minors. They include 593 murders, over 1.5 thousand (1,645) rapes, almost 4.5 thousand (4,396) cases of sexual abuse. Over 9 months of this year we have already solved over 12 thousand crimes against children (12,154), including 378 murders, 990 rapes, 3,358 cases of sexual abuse”.
Noting the general improvement of work of investigating bodies in investigating and solving crimes committed against children, the speakers drew attention to a number of unsolved tasks and offered concrete measures aimed at improvement of investigating practice of such cases.
In addition the agenda included efficiency of investigating crimes in the area of economy and compensation of damage.
Speaking about economic crimes, the Chairman said that “over 9 months of the year 2014 investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have considered about 60 thousand reports on economic crimes (58,438) and initiated almost 30 thousand criminal cases (29,594). Nearly 18 thousand (17,941) of them have been finished, which is 15% more than over the same period last year. During preliminary investigations damages worth 15 billion 600 million rubles have been compensated”.
Taking account of the wide scope of economic crimes which affects almost all socially important areas of state life, Mr. Bastrykin demanded from his subordinates to brisk up the work in this area, namely, in revealing crimes connected with money laundering. He drew special attention to the necessity of improving interaction of investigating divisions with other law enforcement and controlling authorities.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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