OBKhSS

The Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property (abbreviation: OBKhSS, Russian: Отдел по борьбе с хищениями социалистической собственности, ОБХСС) functioned as the Soviet financial police. It administered economic laws combating theft of property in the organizations and institutions of state commerce, consumer, industrial and individual co-operatives, savings-banks and procurement agencies; it also acted against bribery and speculation.

Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property

(OBKhSS) Отдел по борьбе с хищениями социалистической собственности (ОБХСС)
Agency overview
Formed	March 16, 1937
Dissolved	February, 1992
Superseding agency	Department for combating economic crimes Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)
Jurisdiction	The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR

The People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, Nikolai Yezhov, established the OBKhSS as a department of the Main Police Department of the NKVD of the USSR on March 16, 1937 in Order of the People's Commissar No. 0018. From 1946 to 1991 the organisation operated under the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of the USSR.

As of 2023^[update] successor-organisations of the OBKhSS - with similar functions in the Russian Federation - are:

• the Main Administration of Economic Security and Opposition to Corruption (ru) of the MVD
• OBEP - the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the MVD^[1]
• the DEB - the Department for Economic Security (Russian: Департамент экономической безопасности (ДЭБ)) of the MVD.

Gallery

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  Medal marking 50 years of the OBKhSS of the MVD in the USSR - 1987

See also

• Era of Stagnation
• Militsiya
• MVD
• Uzbek cotton scandal