The Kremlin has discussed the fight against corruption and compensation for damage to the Russian Federation – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, January 26 – RIA Novosti. self-interest of corrupt officials is necessary to identify at an early stage, the control of the budget and the fight against domestic corruption need to be strengthened, and from modest amounts of damages was time to leave, the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

At the last Council in the Kremlin, the Anti-Corruption Head of State has designated a number of important tasks in the fight against bribery.

Opening the meeting, the Russian president said that the current in recent years, anti-corruption legislation and practice meet international standards.

“Only for the first nine months of 2015 criminal cases of corruption were convicted of more than 8800 people. Almost 11,000 officials were disciplined for violation of anti-corruption standards “, – Putin said.

The head of state reminded that in late 2015 adopted a document which established mechanisms for disclosure of the personal interest of the employee and engagement against violators, including dismissal due to the loss of confidence.

The control of the budget and the fight against domestic corruption

One of the priorities, according to Putin, is to improve the enforcement of anti-corruption field. In this connection it is necessary to improve the work of entities that control the spending of budget funds.

“It is important at an early stage to identify the personal interest of those who are in bad faith disposed of budgetary funds, to open the facts of using straw or affiliated organizations, eliminate the conflict of interests”, – said the head of state.

In general, the President noted, that the anti-corruption arena a lot of work and to achieve quick results, especially in the fight against domestic corruption, – “it is a difficult task, maybe even an elusive”.

“Once again, I stress, responsibility for reducing corruption Territories are heads of subjects of the Federation “, – said the head of state.

On the return of assets and compensation

The president made it clear that the damage from the actions of corrupt officials should be reimbursed in full . According to him, it is necessary to return the assets illegally and illegally derived in other jurisdictions based on international law.

“It is necessary to improve and such an anti-corruption mechanism as seizure and forfeiture State property acquired on illegal or questionable money “, – Putin said.

Also, the Russian president insists on curbing bribery on behalf of the commercial structures of the Russian and foreign officials, which are undertaken in foreign countries. He recalled that the relevant amendments have already been made to the State Duma.

In turn, the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov proposed to entrust the General Prosecutor’s Office, Rosfinmonitoring and the Ministry of Justice to intensify cooperation with foreign counterparts to establish, the arrest and return of illegally obtained corrupt property.

Turning to statistics, Putin said that from 15.5 billion rubles to be recovered in cases of corruption in the last year managed to return only 588 million rubles. “Agree, it is quite a modest sum”, – he said.

In addition, Putin stressed that it is important to form a society anti-corruption of justice, which should be brought up at school.

toughen responsibility bribes

The head of the Kremlin administration and the Bureau of Anti-Corruption Council, Sergei Ivanov proposed to consider the possibility of prosecution for taking bribes, is not transmitted directly to the official, and said a third person.

“I consider it necessary to study the issue of liability in cases where the bribe is given for committing an official action in favor of third parties, not the bribe-giver. And also when a bribe is not given directly to the official, and said a third person”, – Ivanov said at a meeting of the board on Tuesday.

The current code contains the article “bribe-taking” (290), “bribery” (291) “mediation in bribery” (291.1) and “provocation of a bribe or commercial bribery “(304). They contain a wide range of sanctions, from fines to the conclusion.

Also, according to the head of the Kremlin administration, it is necessary to develop measures of property responsibility for corruption crimes, including the arrangements for its collection.

“It is obvious that you need to create mechanisms for civil recovery of doubtful assets when identified during the investigation of criminal cases of corruption “, – said Ivanov. He added that we are talking about property in respect of which there are doubts as to the legality of the acquisition based on revenue officer.

“If it is found a significant difference between the income and expenses during the period of a person in the civil service, his dismissal can not serve as an obstacle to access to the court with similar claims, claims for damages on the territory of the Russian Federation”, – Ivanov said.

He also considers it necessary to enter into the Criminal Code a separate offense, establishing responsibility for giving or taking bribes to 10 thousand rubles – from the punishment in the form of fines and corrective work.