Visitors commit about half of all crimes in Moscow in past three months
MOSCOW. April 17 (Interfax) - Visitors perpetrated about half of all crimes in Moscow in the first quarter of this year, deputy chief of the city police department's public peace division Vladimir Pozdnov told a press conference in Moscow.
"Non-residents were responsible for 49.8% of all crimes committed in Moscow in the first three months [of this year]," he said.
He said it would be wrong to call those people labor migrants because 73% of them were unemployed at the moment they committed their crimes and 15% had an earlier criminal record.
Most of the criminals were citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.
Apart from Federal Migration Service records, the city police have brought administrative charges against more than 13,000 subjects of CIS member countries since the beginning of this year.