OREANDA-NEWS. September 28, 2012. The State Tax Service has signed a contract to supply systems for video conference to the departments conducting pretrial investigations.

The new system will retrench the cost of investigating actions. Specifically, question witnesses and suspects, confrontations, identification of excise stamps, passports, stamps and other documents can be made without travel. It saves as working time investigators, as well as budgetary funds that were spent on travel to the regions when investigating high-profile cases.

The tax office stress that the videoconferences are a topical innovation exactly to investigate economic crimes, as in most cases criminals use interregional chains of fictitious companies, and the evidence base should be collected throughout the country and abroad. The introduction of new communication system, the STS hopes, accelerates the process of collecting evidence.

In addition, re-equipment of law enforcement officials is caused due to requirements of the new Criminal Procedure Code, which takes effect on Nov. 19, 2012.