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| Terrorism/abduction rate halves in Chechnya in 2006 |
| 2007-02-10 |
| (Itar-Tass) -- The number of terrorist acts and abductions nearly halved in Chechnya last year, a source at the Chechen prosecutor’s office told Itar-Tass on Friday. “The rate of terrorist acts reduced by 58.9% [39 to 95] and the rate of abductions dipped by 63.7% [61 to 168]. Some 15.2% more crimes were solved,” Chechen Prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov said on Friday. Last August civilian and military prosecutors adopted a comprehensive program for the suppression of abductions and the search for missing people in 2006-2010, he said. “The situation in the republic is still complicated, but the general crime rate is down by 7.8%,” Kuznetsov said. The general number of serious crimes reduced by more than 25%, including 39.5% less of murders [250 to 414] and 27.5% less of attacks on police officers [166 to 229]. There were 46.4% less of thefts, 16.7% less of robberies, and 50% less of assaults. The suppression of economic and corruption crimes has also intensified. One hundred and two cases of embezzlement and three cases of bribery were exposed last year. Fourteen chiefs of local administrations were put to justice. |
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