Over the past few years, largely due to the high professionalism, diligence and dedication of internal affairs officers, the situation in Tatarstan has remained stable. This was stated by Rustam Minnikhanov, the Rais of Tatarstan, at an extended meeting of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Summarizing the results of the last year, the Acting Minister of Internal Affairs for RT Alexei Sokolov noted that in 2023 the Ministry implemented the planned set of measures to implement the state policy in the field of ensuring and protecting the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, law and order and public safety, increasing the efficiency of the use of available forces and means in combating crime.
In the republic 55,444 crimes were registered, including 17,126 crimes of grave and especially grave nature. The republic's law enforcement agencies solved 23,750 criminal offenses, including a number of grave and especially grave crimes that caused a wide public resonance.
A total of 18 thousand crimes committed with the use of information and telecommunication technologies were registered on the territory of the republic last year, of which 13 thousand 277 - fraud, 4 thousand 461 - theft from bank accounts, 3 thousand 965 - illegal sale or transfer of drugs, 2 thousand 441 - illegal access to computer information, 414 - extortion.
Tatarstan ranks fifth among all subjects of the country in terms of the total number of investigated remote thefts and frauds.
In 2023, the law enforcement agencies of Tatarstan uncovered 2,602 economic crimes, which resulted in compensation for material damage totaling 3 billion 883 million 255 thousand rubles. The activities of 8 financial pyramids were suppressed, which affected more than 2 thousand citizens. Twenty crimes related to the legalization (laundering) of money or other property acquired by criminal means were uncovered. In the sphere of illegal cashing of financial resources 488 crimes were detected.
Also in the reporting year, about 397 thousand foreign citizens and stateless persons were registered at the place of stay in the Republic of Tatarstan, and more than 5 thousand people acquired Russian citizenship. About 53 thousand patents were issued for labor activity on the territory of the country. For malicious violation of migration legislation court decisions on administrative expulsion from Russia were taken against 3061 foreign citizens and 225 on deportation.
Rais drew attention to the fact that this year Tatarstan will host a number of serious political and sporting events. Among them are elections of the President of Russia, deputies of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, events within the framework of BRICS, Future Games, KazanForum and a number of others. “Successful holding of the events requires a lot of preparatory work, first of all, on the part of law enforcement structures,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.