# OBKhSS

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{{Short description|Soviet financial police}}
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{{Infobox government agency
|agency_name   = Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property
|nativename    = (OBKhSS)
|nativename_a  = Отдел по борьбе с хищениями социалистической собственности
|nativename_r  = (ОБХСС)
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|formed        = March 16, 1937
|dissolved     = February, 1992
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The '''Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property''' (abbreviation: '''OBKhSS''', {{langx|ru|Отдел по борьбе с хищениями социалистической собственности, ОБХСС}}) functioned as the [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) [financial](/source/Finance) [police](/source/police). It administered [economic](/source/economics) 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](/source/bribery) and [speculation](/source/speculation).
 
The [People's Commissar for Internal Affairs](/source/People's_Commissar_for_Internal_Affairs), [Nikolai Yezhov](/source/Nikolai_Yezhov), established the OBKhSS as a department of the Main Police Department of the [NKVD](/source/NKVD) of the [USSR](/source/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](/source/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Soviet_Union)) (MVD) of the [USSR](/source/USSR).

{{As of | 2023}} successor-organisations of the OBKhSS - with similar functions in the [Russian Federation](/source/Russian_Federation) - are:

* the {{ill|Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes|ru|Главное управление экономической безопасности и противодействия коррупции}} of the [Ministry of Internal Affairs](/source/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Russia))
* OBEP - the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the MVD<ref>
{{cite book
 |editor-last1         = Orttung
 |editor-first1        = Robert
 |editor-last2         = Latta
 |editor-first2        = Anthony
 |date                 = 11 January 2013
 |orig-date            = 2008
 |title                = Russia's Battle with Crime, Corruption and Terrorism
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=bfjXUDJj4nMC
 |series               = Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
 |publication-place    = Abingdon
 |publisher            = Routledge
 |isbn                 = 9781134089000
 |access-date          = 20 July 2023
 |quote                = [...] corruption and illegitimate ties are widespread in such subdivisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as: the Department for Combating Economic Crimes (OBEP); [...].
}} 
</ref>
* the DEB - the Department for Economic Security ({{langx |ru| Департамент экономической безопасности (ДЭБ)}}) of the MVD.

==Gallery==
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File:ОБХСС.JPG|Medal marking 50 years of the  OBKhSS of the MVD in the USSR - 1987 
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==See also==
*[Era of Stagnation](/source/Era_of_Stagnation)
*[Militsiya](/source/Militsiya)
*[MVD](/source/MVD)
*[Uzbek cotton scandal](/source/Uzbek_cotton_scandal)

==References==
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Category:Economy of the Soviet Union
Category:Law enforcement in the Soviet Union

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