Moscow police offer to return inquiry powers to FMS

The headquarters of the Interior Ministry in Moscow has offered to entitle the Federal Migration Service of Russia with the powers of an inquiry body as well as increase the sentence for organizing illegal migration to six years in order to make the fight against illegal immigration more effective, Interfax reports.
The deputy head of the central board of inquiry of the Moscow Interior Ministry, Anatoly Sorokin, said that after the FMS were left without powers of inquiry, the detection of crimes related to the organization of illegal migration has dropped dramatically.

Sorokin believes that one of the solutions to the problem is to provide the the FMS with inquiry powers.

According to the Moscow police, from January-April 2012 foreigners committed every seventh registered crime – 2985 crimes in Moscow altogether.