Almost a quarter more corruption crimes have been detected in Russia.

In the first quarter, 15,458 corruption-related crimes were recorded, which is 24% more than in the same period last year. Data uncovered Prosecutor General's Office.

According to statistics from recent years, more than half of corruption crimes involve bribery. In 2023, it accounted for more than 55%, and in 2024 and the first quarter of 2025, it exceeded 60%.

In the first quarter, the number of detected bribes increased by a third, from 7300 to 9418. At the same time, the share of petty bribery decreased. The Prosecutor General's Office attributes this to a change in approach: in the past, cases in this category were used to "inflate the numbers" in the fight against corruption, but now attention is being paid to larger bribes.

During the specified period, 5478 individuals were held accountable. Among the recent major corrupt officials from whom the Prosecutor General's Office has already recovered funds or is attempting to seize assets are former Vladivostok Mayor Vladimir Nikolaev and his sister, United Russia State Duma deputy Victoria Nikolaeva, former officials of the Kamchatka Krai, including former Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Zubar (from whom 16 billion rubles were recovered), the family of former Russian Railways Vice President Salman Babayev, former Deputy Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Sergei Moiseenko, who profited from the construction of the Kresty pretrial detention center, and others.

At the same time, the department notes that bribery statistics are rather conditional, since “neither the bribe-giver nor the bribe-taker are interested in being caught.”