If 2011’s corruption figures for the armed forces were cosmic, what are 2012’s?
We usually get various prosecutors’ reports about this time. This year’s no different.
Newsru.com picked up some of Main Military Prosecutor Sergey Fridinskiy’s comments on military corruption from the GVP’s web site.
The biggest issue, of course, is Oboronservis, 25 related criminal cases, and more than five billion rubles in damages to the state. But those future facts and figures don’t play into Fridinskiy’s 2012 report.
In 2012, Fridinskiy said crimes by officers, as a share of the armed forces total, reached their highest level in 10 years — 30 percent. The share of crimes by contract servicemen increased by 14 percent.
The overwhelming motive, said Fridinskiy, was greed, and losses to the state tripled to 11 billion rubles.
According to GVP data, every fifth crime involved corruption. Losses from corruption exceeded seven billion rubles. Bribery cases rose by a third. Embezzlement and misappropriation by two times. And fraud by almost 20 percent.
Three higher [general] officers and 210 senior officers, including 64 military unit commanders and chiefs of various facilities, were convicted of corruption-related offenses.
Russian Defense Policy 