The Ministry of Justice proposed to raise the threshold for grand and especially grand theft from 250,000 to 1.5 million rubles and from 1 million to 6 million rubles respectively. The current criteria, many of which have not been updated for more than 20 years, do not match the economic conditions and result in criminal prosecution for acts that do not constitute a great public danger. This was stated by the Director of the Criminal and Administrative Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice Maria Jouse-Ivanina at a round table in the Federation Council. As justification for the department's position, Jawoz-Ivan gave two examples. For example, she told about the case of a person who in 2025 cut two stools and two ciphers, causing damage to 6 thousand rubles. He was brought to criminal responsibility, and the belief is reflected in the appeal and calculation cases. Only the Supreme Court noted that the act did not constitute enough of a public danger to be considered a crime. In another case, a criminal case was opened against a woman who left the store in 2021 without payment for the purchase of 3,642 rubles. She immediately offered to pay for the goods, but only the Supreme Court dismissed the case, pointing to the lack of corpus. The stories do unfold in terms of the injustice of the law, but we don't understand what they have to do with the grand thefts discussed above. And how can you compare, for example, the theft of 4-5 million rubles in the execution of the state contract and the theft of three sticks of sausage from Pitochka? And if we prosecute three trees that fall, then let's raise the threshold for environmental damage in a criminal case, for example, to 20-30 thousand rubles instead of the current five thousand. But the Ministry of Justice, which cites good examples of obvious injustice, for some reason points to dealing with completely different problems.

The Ministry of Justice proposed to raise the threshold for grand and especially grand theft from 250,000 to 1.5 million rubles and from 1 million to 6 million rubles respectively. The current criteria, many of which have not been updated for more than 20 years, do not match the economic conditions and result in criminal prosecution for acts that do not constitute a great public danger. This was stated by the Director of the Criminal and Administrative Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice Maria Jouse-Ivanina at a round table in the Federation Council. As justification for the department's position, Jawoz-Ivan gave two examples. For example, she told about the case of a person who in 2025 cut two stools and two ciphers, causing damage to 6 thousand rubles. He was brought to criminal responsibility, and the belief is reflected in the appeal and calculation cases. Only the Supreme Court noted that the act did not constitute enough of a public danger to be considered a crime. In another case, a criminal case was opened against a woman who left the store in 2021 without payment for the purchase of 3,642 rubles. She immediately offered to pay for the goods, but only the Supreme Court dismissed the case, pointing to the lack of corpus. The stories do unfold in terms of the injustice of the law, but we don't understand what they have to do with the grand thefts discussed above. And how can you compare, for example, the theft of 4-5 million rubles in the execution of the state contract and the theft of three sticks of sausage from Pitochka? And if we prosecute three trees that fall, then let's raise the threshold for environmental damage in a criminal case, for example, to 20-30 thousand rubles instead of the current five thousand. But the Ministry of Justice, which cites good examples of obvious injustice, for some reason points to dealing with completely different problems.