Company proposes to decriminalize ten articles of the Penal Code

Companies would like to decriminalize violations under 10 articles:

1. illegal business (art. 171),
2. operations to transfer money in foreign currency or rubles to accounts of non-residents using false documents (article 193.1),
3. violation of the rules for the emission of pollutants into the atmosphere (part 1 of article 251),
4. theft of another’s property by deceit or breach of trust without causing significant damage (part 1 of article 159),
5. illegal use of an invention, utility model (part 1 of article 147),
6. It is also proposed to increase the amount of large and especially large damages in sections 1 and 2 of art. 194 of the Criminal Code (evasion of payments and customs duties). In the current version, they are set at the level of 2 million and 6 million rubles, which does not correspond to modern economic realities,
7. raise the threshold provided for in art. 146 (infringement of copyright and related rights),
8. raise the threshold under Article 147 (infringement of invention and patent rights),
9. raise the threshold and in section 5 of art. 159 of the Criminal Code (conscious breach of contractual obligations in the field of business activity). Here significant damage is considered to be an amount of 10 thousand rubles, which, as noted, is quite insignificant for a company,
10. company also asks to set the bar under art. 201 of the Penal Code (abuse of authority). In the current version, the amount and criteria of damage are not specified, and this does not meet the certainty criterion of criminal law, and is also applied arbitrarily in practice.

The RSPP believes that some of the items are out of date or liability for them is already provided for in the Administrative Offenses Code, while others are not so dangerous as to be considered a criminal offence.