MOSCOW, September 26 (RAPSI) – Russia’s business ombudsman Boris Titov is going to request the Prosecutor General’s Office to check out cases on building a criminal group launched against entrepreneurs, the ombudsman’s press service has told RAPSI.

Titov wants to receive statistics concerning the number of defendants detained in such cases including accountants and secretaries of companies.

The ombudsman also deems appropriate to turn along with Russia’s human rights commissioner to the Constitutional Court with a motion to explain this Article of the Criminal Code (Article 210) and draw the line of its implementation, because charges of organizing a criminal group are being increasingly brought against businessmen, the press service quoted Titov as having said.

According to Titov, about 100 criminal cases are opened annually against businessmen on gang building charges. Law enforcement authorities use this article as reserve to keep entrepreneurs in detention as long as possible, the ombudsman believes.