MOSCOW, June 27 (RAPSI) - Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov has initiated a proposal to create a centralized electronic register of criminal cases against entrepreneurs, the ombudsman’s press service has told RAPSI.

Titov believes that Russia could adopt the best practices of countries that use information records system while investigating crimes. 

According to the ombudsman, reports on crimes and procedural decisions, information on investigation, measures of restraint, cases’ parties are to be added to the register.

Titov also favored the decision of Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office to create a register of inspections and proposed to extend it to a criminal field. Last year, 242,000 criminal cases on embezzlement and business-related crimes were opened, about 5,000 cases were closed and 49,000 cases reached court, he added. According to the ombudsman, creation of the electronic register could throw light on certain cases and monitor the situation as a whole.