Day of formation of economic security units in the MIA system
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The predecessor of this service was the famous department for combating theft of socialist property and speculation (OBKhSS), created on March 16, 1937 as part of the Main Police Department of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR. The adopted regulation on the BCCS, in particular, stated that it was created “to ensure the fight against the theft of socialist property in organizations and institutions of state trade, as well as to combat speculation.”
In February 1992, the Main Directorate for Economic Crimes (GUEP) was created as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which five years later was renamed GUBEP. In June 2001, it became part of the Criminal Police Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and two years later the Federal Service for Economic and Tax Crimes began to operate in the structure of the Ministry. As a result of the administrative reform, it became the Department of Economic Security.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 2006, almost 490,000 economic crimes were recorded in Russia - 12% more than in the previous year. More than a third of them are classified as serious and especially serious. The head of the department Rashid Nurgaliyev notes that the fight against crime in the economy has become more qualitative, and good results have been achieved in the consumer market, in the credit and financial sphere and foreign economic activity.
At the same time, Nurgaliyev noted that in 2007 a significant adjustment of work in this direction will be required. First of all, he considers it necessary to make changes to the structure and number of specialized units, and to transfer the investigation of complex and high-profile crimes to the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to ITAR-TASS.