International Legalization Centre offers a service on execution of Police clearance certificate in Russia. This document in Russia is issued by info-analytic centres attached to the MIA of Russia. When it is inconvenient for a client to refer personally to the mentioned agency in the territory of Russia, he/she may order the certificate in our centre on-line. The most common instances, when you need to order a Police clearance certificate in Russia, include visa processing, employment or naturalization in foreign state. If the Certificate is prepared to be submitted in agency under a foreign state jurisdiction and this foreign state is the country, which ratified the Hague Convention, the Certificate must be certified by Apostille and translated into a foreign language. In some instances the Certificate should be additionally legalized through the consular agency of the country, for which it is intended for.
Example of Police clearance certificate in Russia. Example of Apostille for the Certificate.
If a person has no records of criminal conviction, the Certificate will specify their absence. If a person was convicted, the Certificate of conviction in Russia would specify the conviction or convictions together with numbers of Articles of the Criminal Code of Russia.
Statistics.
According to information from the General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia, 2,580,476 crimes were committed in 2017. The third part of crimes was committed by citizens, which had been convicted earlier. Every sixth crime was committed under the influence of alcoholic drinks and/or drugs. The greatest number of crimes were registered against property - 1,161.2 thousands.
7 most famous prisons in Russia:
1. Butyrskaya Prison, Moscow.
2. Lefortovo Prison, Moscow.
3. Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, Moscow.
4. “Kresty”, Saint-Petersburg.
5. Black Dolphin prison, Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast.
6. Vladimir central prison, Vladimir, Vladimir Oblast.
7. Solikamsk prison, or “White Swan”, Solikamsk, Perm Krai.
There are totally 3,675 places of deprivation of liberty in Russia, of them: 722 correction camps, 24 young offender institutions, 8 prisons, 126 penal colony settlements, 315 detention facilities, 2,480 probation departments and their affiliated branches. Employees of Federal Penal Service numbers over 300,000 persons. According to certificate of judicial department attached to the Supreme Court and data from The Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, as of 2008 over 18% citizens in Russia have a criminal record. There is no precise information as to the number of Russian citizens, having a criminal record.
If a client was convicted, the International Legalization Centre may not facilitate in preparation a Police clearance certificate in Russia without specifying the criminal record. All variants of expungement and cancellation of a criminal record in Russia are listed in Article 86 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Example of Police clearance certificate in Russia (since 2020).
