MOSCOW. May 19 (Interfax) - Interior Ministry officials state untruthful information about their incomes in their official declarations more often than officials from other federal ministries, Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said in the State Duma on Wednesday.
"Among the audited federal ministries - two of them, the Health and Social Development Ministry and the Interior Ministry, were subjected to thorough audits - the greatest number of offenses was identified at the Interior Ministry: over 9,000," Buksman said.
Buksman said that at the beginning of the year the Prosecutor General's Office at instructions from the president checked the fulfillment of the obligation of public officers to report truthful information about their incomes and property.
The audits uncovered over 40,000 abuses and with the purpose of removing them 10,000 protests were filed and 6,000 officials punished.
"Over half of all the abuses were registered in local self-government. Almost 200 abuses were committed by officers holding executive positions in constituent territories," Buksman said.