Rustam Minnikhanov transforms Tatarstan Anti-Corruption Presidential Council into commission

On November 11, speaking at the first meeting of the Tatarstan Anti-Corruption Presidential Commission held at the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that he signed a decree transforming the Tatarstan Anti-Corruption Presidential Council into a commission on 13 October in accordance with the decree of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

Summing up the word done by the Council Minnikhanov said that in recent years it has focused on implementing anti-corruption policies, ensuring publicity of the government, regulating statistical accounting, preventing breaches of the law in using budget funds and public property, especially in terms of land use.

Since 2011, the Council has held 13 meetings and considered 25 issues, with a total of 174 regulations having been passed.

As many as 120 commissions on complying with requirements for official position and regulating conflicts of interests have been established under the council’s patronage to hold about 500 meetings annually.

In the past 1.5 years, 15 public officials have been held responsible for breaching the anti-corruption legislation, while 250 people are criminally prosecuted for corruption-related crimes annually. About 5,000 anti-corruption violations are exposed by the prosecution and other authorities.

Minnikhanov noted insufficient role of public councils set up by municipal authorities. “You need to intensify preventive work and involve the public,” he stressed.