The head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, said that over the past two years the number of particularly serious crimes committed by immigrants has increased significantly. Lenta.ru reports thathttps://lenta.ru/news/2023/10/24/glava-mvd-rossii-rasskazal-o-sovershaemyh-migrantami-prestupleniyah.
A board meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was held to combat illegal immigration.
As Kolokoltsev noted, qualitative changes are now taking place in the structure of foreign crime. The rate of serious and especially serious acts increased.
According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the number of cases where migrants participate in drug trafficking is increasingly increasing. One in four people who come to Russia files a criminal case for banned substances. Moreover, Kolokoltsev announced that this is one in every eight cases in 2021.
Kolokoltsev noted that the Russian Federation ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of immigrants.
Also Deputy Head of the Ministry of Construction Alexander Lomakin statedApproximately 800 thousand immigrants work at construction sites in the Russian Federation.
Previously HSE researchers I learnedThat Russia may need 390 thousand to 1.1 million immigrants per year to maintain its population.