than the same period a year

Russian authorities identified 15,438 crimes classed as corruption during the first three months of 2025. This figure is 24 percent higher than the same period a year ago, much higher before 2022, and represents a greater rate of increase than between 2023 and 2024, when such crimes rose by only 5.7 percent. Corruption crimes also increased as a share of all crimes. In the first quarter of this year, corruption crimes accounted for 3.2 percent of all crimes, up from 2.6 percent in the same quarter of 2024. Moreover, bribe charges between January and March rose from 7,300 in 2024 to 9,418 in 2025. The Prosecutor General’s Office claimed that the share of corruption charges involving small bribes has decreased, although it did not provide statistics to support this point. This claim suggests that the number of other crimes classified as corruption, including large bribes สล็อตเว็บตรง