“In criminal cases, it’s from strength to 2-3 billion rubles a year, as a rule, even less,” RIA Novosti quotes Kudrina.
He noted that about a third of the total amount of financial irregularities identified in 2019 is accounting violations.
“They are corrected during inspections. Another third are violations of procurement procedures, which are not criminal offenses, ”Kudrin said.
According to him, the Accounts Chamber will gradually move from searching for financial irregularities to identifying systemic problems in the financial sector, that is, increasing the share of the so-called strategic audit.
“We will set for ourselves such a KPI - to influence the situation in the country more through resolving systemic problems. And by the middle of this year we’ll build a new model for managing the Accounts Chamber, ”he concluded.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the non-fulfillment of federal budget expenditures in 2019 in the amount of up to 1 trillion rubles, noting that this “never happened”.
In December, the head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, a member of the Human Rights Council, Kirill Kabanov proposed equating the theft of budget funds with high treason.