OREANDA-NEWS. November 16, 2012. The National Institute for Advancing Qualification of Members of Staff of the Ministry of Interior organized a workshop “On Increasing Efficiency of Official Activities and Methodological Support of Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption”, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Deputy Head of FAS Anti-Cartel Department, Andrey Tenischev, made a presentation “Cartel as a Type of Organized Criminal Group in Economics. The Issues of Qualifications and Substantiation”.

Today cartel is the only economic crime defined in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as a crime committed by a group of persons.

“Cartel agreements exposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service often have all signs of an organized group or a criminal community as defined by the criminal law”, pointed out Andrey Tenischev. “Our goal is to establish cooperation with the Ministry of Interior to make criminal prosecution and punishment of the participants of such agreements inevitable”.