For one thing, of course, IMB unlike Moscow Narodny is physically located in Russia.
The IMB also said it was concerned about the number of employment places available to prisoners.
Year-to-date, the IMB reports that Somali pirates held 532 hostages on 26 vessels.
The leading candidate for such an onshore trustee currently appears to be the International Moscow Bank (IMB).
IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre based in Kuala Lumpur monitors ship movements around the world and co-ordinates pirate chases across borders.
ECONOMIST: Regional efforts to combat piracy are taking shape
IMB, Indonesia's deteriorating economic and political situation is at the root of the increase in piracy in the region.
ECONOMIST: Regional efforts to combat piracy are taking shape
Leicestershire's HMP Gartree, near Market Harborough, was inspected by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) which highlighted a number of concerns.
BBC: Gartree Prison still needs improvements, say inspectors
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) expressed "major concerns" about over stretched staff and "unfit" facilities at HMP Risley in Warrington.
The IMB found that 732 incidents were investigated between November 2010 and the end of October 2011, with 593 proven.
Those without en-suite facilities, the IMB said, had to register a toilet request by pressing a button in their cells.
The IMB says its target of stopping global polio transmission by the end of the year will clearly not be achieved.
The report by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said there had been an "unprecedented number of serious incidents" at Elmley prison.
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) estimates that 53 ships were hijacked worldwide in 2010 and says a record 1, 181 hostages were taken.
In its report to the prisons minister, the IMB said while 132 prisoners had 24-hour toilet and washing facilities, 96 did not.
The IMB also noted that some prisoners were housed in triple cells.
The IMB recognised some progress had been made at the jail near Banstead, but was concerned the activity would be short-lived, it added.
In November the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) called for extra funding for the jail due to concerns about overstretched staff and "unfit" units.
The IMB and Border Agency said 12 detainees from Morton Hall had been transferred to other centres and an investigation was under way.
The prison's Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said nearly half the inmates faced waiting to use the toilet - a situation described as "inhumane".
The IMB also said the National Offender Management Service had shown "an apparent lack of will" to ensure prison managers could tackle the issue.
The report by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said up to 50 of the Downview inmates were suspected of being suppliers, carriers or users.
As of early August armed Somali pirates hold more than 170 hostages, according to the IMB, and were responsible for 35 deaths in 2011 alone.
In a report last month the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative said significant progress had been made in Pakistan in 2012.
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) is advising ship-owners to adopt measure such as having look-outs or travelling at speeds which would allow them to outrun the pirates.
The IMB says pirates off Somalia use "mother ships" that travel far out to sea and launch smaller boats to attack passing vessels, sometimes using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
Assistant director of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), Michael Howlett, said the 268 crew members aboard the 14 vessels now faced Christmas at sea, away from their families.
"We feel it is very important that the littoral countries take strong action against these criminals as soon as possible before the situation gets out of control, " said Pottengal Mukandan, the director of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
Howlett told CNN the 268 people currently held did not include a number of crew members from two further Yemeni ships that are under pirate control, as they had not been formally reported to the IMB by their owners.
The first quarter of 2011 has seen piracy-at-sea hit an all time high with 142 attacks worldwide and 97 of the East coast of Somalia, up from 35 a year ago, a report by the IMB Piracy Reporting Center says.
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