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Team of Investigative Committee Central Office officials arrive in Trans-Baikal Territory on order of Chairman

On 14 December 2014, officials of the Central Office of the Russia’s Investigative Committee arrived in Trans-Baikal Territory following the order of the Russia’s Investigative Chairman.

Over 9 month of the year there have been 10 criminal investigations launched in murders of children and 84 investigations in sex abuses in Trans-Baikal Territory.

On 14 December the officials set off for the town of Borzya to meet representatives of the staff of one of the schools and accept citizens. At the meetings they heard a report made by employees of the Trans-Baikal Territory Investigations Directorate concerning sexual abuse of a small girl that had resonated in wider public, made specific orders to organize an additional procedural check to reveal reasons and conditions that had contributed to the crime.

On 15 December officials of the Central Office together with senior officials of the Trans-Baikal Territory Investigations Directorate visited Chita professional school No 14 where the students rioted last year. At the meeting the opinion was voiced that the reason of crimes committed by teenagers was their idleness and unemployment which led to alcoholism and drug addiction. The investigations are going to study activity of all officials of educational and preventive bodies which could have contributed to the crimes and it will be given proper legal assessment.

On the same day the officials of the Central Office took part in a joint meeting with the Governor of Trans-Baikal Territory, ministers of the Trans-Baikal Government in charge of social range of issues and senior officials of law enforcement bodies. At the meeting a principle evaluation was given to the work of prevention bodies whose failures caused the circumstances that had contributed to the crimes committed in Trans-Baikal Territory. It was pointed out that the measures taken by leaders of the Territory were inadequate to the current situation and actions of all officials will be given legal assessment.

During the visit of the representatives of the Central Office in Trans-Baikal Territory the Investigations Directorate launched 5 criminal investigations to give legal assessment to the actions of people, who had let the facts about personal life of a minor leak into mass media; people, who had allowed a minor to go back in the family with improper conditions for raising a child and officials, who had allowed an illegal and ill-grounded procedural decision to have been made concerning sexual abuse of a minor. Those investigations are under special control in the Russia’s Investigative Committee.