The cost of bribery is so high in Russia it should be a crime.

Greasing the palms of Russian officials has jumped by 75 percent since last year, the country’s anti-corruption tsar said, according to a report on Thursday.

The average price of payola hit 328,000 rubles – or $5,600 – in 2016, Lt. Gen. Andrei Kurnosenko told business daily Kommersant, NBC News reported.

“But often the bribes are much higher,” he said.

Kurnosenko said the total amount spent for putting in the fix was 298 billion rubles – or $5.1 billion – and that only took into account fraud discovered by law enforcement agencies, which looked into 69,000 cases involving corruption, the report said.

Kurnosenko said he couldn’t explain why the cost of dirty deeds are no longer dirt cheap, but the newspaper said the ruble has lost half its value against the US dollar since 2014 because of sanctions over Russia’s meddling in Ukraine and falling oil prices.