Getting corruption under control —“Stressed the importance of free enterprise

Getting corruption under control

—“Stressed the importance of free enterprise and admitted the excessive power of law enforcers.” Indeed, Putin did mention that in 2014, Russian law enforcement agencies investigated almost 200,000 business-related criminal cases, of which only 15 percent ended in convictions — yet 83 percent of businesspeople who were investigated lost their businesses. “That means they were pressured, expropriated and allowed to go,” Putin said. “That, of course, is not what we need in terms of business climate.”—