MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The number of crimes have increased from 11,000 in 2013 to 66,000 this year, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement, noting that the number of crimes in 2017 grew by whopping 26 percent.
24 August 2017, 04:48 GMT
The Internet was widely used for extremist propaganda, the Prosecutor General’s Office pointed out that
"For example, in 2016, two-thirds of extremist crimes and one in nine terror-linked crimes were committed with the use of Internet," the statement said.
Crimes committed online caused more than $18 million worth in damages in the first six months of 2017.
The figures were presented by Chayka at a meeting of prosecutor generals of the BRICS states – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – which took place in Brazil.
