More than 60,000 officials convicted of corruption in Russia over five years

More than 60,000 officials have been convicted of corruption in Russia over five years

Property worth more than 800 billion rubles has been seized from them, Kommersant writes, citing a statement by Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan.

In addition, over the past year and a half, property belonging to corrupt officials worth more than three trillion rubles has been confiscated for the state, he added.

Looking through the list of property owned by yet another public servant exposed for corruption, I ask myself every time: why would a sane person with a small family need dozens of apartments and houses, hectares of land, and a fleet of elite cars? I think there are clear signs here of personal degradation. However, all convicted corrupt officials have been found sane,

TASS quotes Gutsan as saying.

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