Interfax: The Ministry of Justice will propose increasing fines for 36 elements of economic crimes

According to him, the text of the document has already been agreed with the Ministry of Economic Development.

The increase may affect trains for which the limit values ​​of dimensional characteristics characterizing large and especially large damage had previously been increased. In particular, the bill proposes increasing fines for:

• tax evasion (part 1 of article 199 of the Criminal Code) – from 500 thousand to 1.5 million rubles (instead of 100 to 300 thousand rubles);

• deliberate bankruptcy (Article 196 of the Criminal Code) – from 800 thousand to 20 million rubles (instead of 200 to 500 thousand rubles);

• abuse during the issuance of securities (Article 185 of the Criminal Code) – from 100 thousand to 2 million rubles (instead of 100 to 300 thousand rubles);

• fraud associated with deliberate non-compliance with contractual obligations in the field of entrepreneurial activity, if this act resulted in significant damage (Part 5 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) – up to 1.5 million rubles (instead of 300 thousand rubles ).

The agency source noted that the amount of fines for these crimes has not been reviewed “for many years” and the changes will help maintain a balance between the preventive function of criminal law and the need to liberalize it.

Now the bill “is going through the approval procedure with the interested federal government bodies and organizations,” added the Interfax interlocutor.