UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2016. When it comes to theft of electronic equipment in Sverdlovsk Region-based offices, crime detection rate went from 85.7% in 2015 down to 80% in 2016, Yekaterinburg’s Internal Affairs Ministry division refers to their Sverdlovsk Region HQ as stating.

All in all, ten criminal lawsuits were instituted in Yekaterinburg concerning office equipment theft in the last nine months, compared with fourteen cases last year.

The division does not specify how many complaints have actually been placed with the authorities this year so far, and how many claims got dismissed before any investigation took off.