OREANDA-NEWS. On 05 March 2008 was announced, that in 2007 the Department of the Economic Security of Dalenergosbyt returned approximately four million rubbles to the budget of the energy company. At this sum the value of the damage to be caused by the electricity stealing was set.

Specialists of the department along with the specialists of the Internal Affairs Bodies and electric grid companies regularly hold raids with the aim of fact-finding of the unaccountable electricity consumption by the legal bodies and individuals.

Special attention is paid to the cottage areas in the suburbs of Vladivostok and in the territory of Primorsky region in the whole. The cases of the unlawful electricity consumption are registered almost monthly, including by the owners of the mansions. In particular, some high ranking officials and representatives of the large-scaled business, in a word – people rather influential and authoritative in Primorsky - are also noted for dishonesty in the relations with the Dalenergosbyt. Most of the well-fixed owners of the suburban cottages independently connect to the electric grid and refuse to pay for the consumed electricity in full scale. While the average consumption of one cottage fluctuates from 7 to 10 thousand kilowatt per hour monthly.

In the second part of the half year of 2007 the employees of the Economic Security Department of Dalenergosbyt suppressed 25 attempts of electricity stealing in the suburbs of Vladivostok and in the city of Nakhodka. Only last December in the course of the raids the facts of stealing of 125 thousand of kilowatt per hour have been found. The sum of the damage caused by the unlawful actions of the subscribers surpassed 120 thousand of rubles.

The set of actions organized by the Economic Security Department of Dalenergosbyt in relation to the electric power devastators and fraudulent evaders will allow to find the cases of the unaccountable electric power consumption and to enforce from the electricity devastators compensations for the caused damage. Every fact of the electricity stealing could raise the grounds for initiation of criminal case the clause 165 , first chapter of the Criminal Code of RF that stipulates the deprivation of freedom for the term up to two years.

It must be noted that for the current time the two facts of electricity stealing is being clarified in the result of what the matter of initiation of criminal case against electricity devastators will be viewed.