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Top Azerbaijani prosecutor announces statistics on crimes for this year

2 October 2013 13:09 (UTC+04:00)
Top Azerbaijani prosecutor announces statistics on crimes for this year

By Sabina Idayatova

The Anti-Corruption Department of the Prosecutor General's Office conducted a preliminary investigation on 322 criminal cases in the first nine months of this year.

Investigations covering 250 people have been completed and around 137 criminal cases submitted to court. During the reporting period, 31 people were arrested at the scene and 23 criminal cases filed, Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov told the official press on October 1, the Day of Prosecutors.

According to Garalov, all the cases submitted to court were reviewed, and guilty verdicts were handed down on all of them.

Under the criminal cases whose investigation has been completed property worth 3.358 million manats was arrested. Other cases are still being considered and compensation for the damage inflicted to physical and legal entities in the amount of 14.422 million manats has been provided.

The prosecutor general also noted that comprehensive and permanent measures to combat corruption resulted in considerable progress for Azerbaijan in the Global Corruption Barometer 2013 report compiled by Transparency International.

According to the report, the level of corruption in Azerbaijan has decreased in all areas. Some 68 percent of respondents in a recent survey deemed state measures to combat corruption as effective. This figure is three times higher in Azerbaijan compared to the 22 percent for world countries.

Whereas 50 percent of respondents across the world believe that the level of corruption in their countries has increased over the past two years, 73 percent of respondents in Azerbaijan said there was no corruption growth in the country.

Furthermore, Garalov said that the number of serious crimes makes up only 10 percent of the total crime rate.

According to the prosecutor general, there is an average of 250 crimes per 100,000 people
in the whole country, which is considerably below the corresponding figures in other countries.

Garalov further said that as a result of cooperation between the Prosecutor's Office with other law enforcement agencies, the situation with crime further stabilized, and measures have been taken to increase the efficiency of the fight against crime in the country.

According to the prosecutor general, as a result of joint measures the total number of reported crimes in 2012 compared to previous years decreased by 9.8 percent to 21,897.

Garalov said that in the first half of 2013, compared with the same period of last year, the number of crimes decreased to 10,929 from 11,953, or by 8.6 percent.

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