The debts should be paid off

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INGUSHETIA, August 19, Caucasus Times – The employees of law-enforcement agencies of the republic who were carrying out their duties in the state of emergency, will have been paid extra payments by the end of this year, said the deputy Interior minister Mukharbek Dikazhev recently.

“The employees will be getting the payments very soon. The families of the policemen perished in the recent terror attack will be the first to get compensations. Then we are going to repay invalids and retirees. Finally, the acting employees will be paid. At total, over five thousand employees should get the payments, said the official.

The money have not been paid since 1993, and the sum of debts rouse to 500 million rubles thus far, the Interior Ministry said. The debts will be liquidated by federal budget. The authorities of Ingushetia vowed all money should be paid off.

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