The verification of compensation payments to Chechen residents has saved the republic\'s budget over 500 million rubles in money that would have been distributed to people who do not actually qualify for aid. \"More than 19,000 of the 92,000 applications [for compensation], which were verified in January-October 2004, appear to contain false information,\" says a report from the Russian Interior Ministry, which was posted on the Russian government\'s website on Monday. \"Sixty-one cases were opened on charges of compensation embezzlement. Some of the cases were opened against officials of Chechen district administrations, who abused their office and illegally added people who had no right to compensations to the list of aid recipients,\" the report reads. \"Thus, damages of 513 million rubles to the federal budget was prevented,\" the report says. (Interfax)