As the official said in an interview with Izvestia, out of 12,000 citizens' appeals, debt relief under a simplified scheme was approved in 5,000 cases.
Torosov noted that in the future, Russian citizens will have the opportunity to file a bankruptcy petition through the portal "Gosuslugi".
Earlier, the NSN reported that the head of the Center for Political Economic Research of the Institute of a New Society, Vasily Koltashov, announced the need to introduce a limit on the number of loans taken simultaneously.