Corruption and negligence among officers are considered key factors provoking disorder and hazing attacks, which have plagued the Russian Armed Forces since Soviet times.
"A number of senior officers were convicted of graft and abuse in 2006. Some of these crimes caused hundreds of millions of rubles in damage," Sergei Fridinsky said, adding that such crimes mainly involve embezzlement and misuse of federal funds.
"Dozens of uniformed officials have been prosecuted for corruption-related crimes," he said.
But he said earlier that the total number of registered crimes and service-related accidents in the Russian Armed Forces decreased by 2% on the previous year, to 21,252 cases in 2006.
He said earlier that officers with criminal records, who number more than 1,000, have no place in the Armed Forces and must be discharged, but that would require a new legal framework.
The prosecutor said his office, along with the defense and security committee of parliament's upper house, the Federation Council, submitted a draft law to tackle the problem.
Crimes committed by military 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.
