OBKhSS
The Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property (abbreviation: OBKhSS, ) was the  Soviet  financial police. It was responsible for the regulation of 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. 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. successor-organisations of the OBKhSS - with similar functions in the Russian Federation - are the  of the MVD, OBEP - the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the MVD
and the DEB - Department for Economic Security ( of the MVD. Gallery

See also
Militsiya
MVD

References

Economy of the Soviet Union
Law enforcement in the Soviet Union