MOSCOW, JANUARY 21 (RIA NOVOSTI) - The Russian Interior Ministry's Federal Service for Economic and Tax Offenses (FSETO) disclosed 2,509 tax offences in 2003, including 2,174 grave and especially serious ones. RIA Novosti received this information at the press service of FSETO main tax offenses department.
The damage done amounts to 15.9 billion rubles (more than half a billion dollars).