Corruption and negligence among officers are considered key factors provoking disorder and hazing attacks, which have plagued the Russian Armed Forces since the Soviet times.
"We think such officers must be discharged," said Sergei Fridinsky, who is also a deputy prosecutor general.
He said that although military service was regulated by a fundamental legal base, there are insufficient laws providing for the dismissal of officers with criminal records.
The prosecutor said his office, along with the defense and security committee of parliament's upper chamber, the Federation Council, have submitted a draft law to tackle the problem.
Crimes committed by army officers range from the use of recruits as free labor to build cottages for generals to embezzlement. Improper performance of their duties also fuels hazing attacks.
The growing number of non-service deaths and violent hazing incidents, which had previously been covered up, became high-profile scandals in the Armed Forces a year ago following a tragedy involving Private Andrei Sychyov, who had both legs and his genitals amputated after being tortured during the New Year holidays at a tank academy in the south Urals city of Chelyabinsk.
The Defense Ministry earlier reported that 514 servicemen had died in accidents and other non-combat-related incidents registered in the country's Armed Forces during 2006, including 22 deaths caused by abuse of rank and hazing attacks, and 193 suicides.
