Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property (shortly The OBKhSS, russian: Отдел по борьбе с хищениями социалистической собственности, ОБХСС) was the

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

financial Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

police The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and t ...

. It was responsible for the regulation of

economic An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...

laws fight against theft of property in the organizations and institutions of state commerce, consumer, industrial and individual co-operatives, savings banks and procurement agencies, as well as to fight against speculation. OBKhSS was established as a department of the Main Police Department of the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

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on March 16, 1937 in Order of the People's Commissar No. 0018. From 1946 to 1991 under the authority of The

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of the

. Currently Successor of the OBKhss in similar function is the OBEP - The Department for fighting against Economic crimes of

MVD The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MVD; russian: Министерство внутренних дел (МВД), ''Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del'') is the interior ministry of Russia. The MVD is responsible for law enfor ...

and the DEB - Department for Economic Security.

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File:ОБХСС.JPG, Medal for 50 years OBKhSS MVD USSR 1987 year

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See also