MOSCOW, 29 Apr. The number of those convicted of economic crimes in Russia has increased over the year — last year, the courts convicted almost 11 thousand people, according to statistics from the Judicial Department under Supreme Court.
The chapter of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, dedicated to crimes in the field of economic activity, has 60 articles providing for liability for tax evasion, illegal obtaining of loans, market manipulation, deliberate bankruptcy, illegal entrepreneurship and registration of illegal transactions, falsification of financial documents, and so on.
In total, 10 thousand 785 people were convicted for these crimes during the year, more than a third of them fully admitted their guilt, and 113 made a deal with justice, actively contributed to the disclosure cases and testified against the accomplices. Cases of 2.8 thousand people were dismissed, 56 defendants were acquitted.
In 2021, a little less than 9,000 people were convicted, 56 were acquitted, and cases against 3,500 defendants were dismissed.
The number of convicts under all articles of fraud has also increased. Over the past year, the courts convicted 23,738 defendants (a thousand more than the year before) and dismissed the cases of 8.7 thousand people (in 2021, 10.8 thousand cases were dismissed).