“This trend is explained by several factors. First, insurance has traditionally been a highly criminogenic area, particularly in the capital with its numerous small-sized insurance companies which do not always comply with statutory requirements. Second, this year a transition towards online insurance services can be observed which sphere has not yet been fully settled from a legal standpoint, and thus risks of fraud are higher. Unscrupulous traffic lawyers have also been very active in Moscow lately buying up claim rights against insurance companies. All these factors combined with a drop in real income of the population have resulted in the insurance industry becoming a leader in terms of the number of crimes committed here”, Alim Bishenov, Managing Partner, BMS Law Firm.