In the structure of the Ministry of internal Affairs there were divisions in the battle against cybercrime, said the press service of the Ministry. Information about what is working on their creation for the first time was announced in November. The reason, as explained in the Ministry, was "growing array" of offenses in the field of IT. about the fact that the units formed, on the last working day of the week at the meeting under the leadership of Deputy Minister said the head of the investigative Department of the Ministry of internal Affairs Alexander Romanov. according to the Agency, in 2019 in the Russian Federation registered almost 300 thousand cyber crimes, of which 98, 4% disclosed. However, the number of offences has increased rapidly, and almost fifty percent of them belong to the category heavy and especially heavy. <span style="color:darkgray