The State Duma committee recommended increasing the fines for 35 types of economic crimes.

The State Duma committee recommended increasing the fines for 35 types of economic crimes.

The State Duma Committee for Criminal and Administrative Legislation recommended adopting a second call a government law that requires increasing fines for more than 30 clauses in the criminal law. The amendments were prepared by the Ministry of Justice.

In particular, it is proposed to increase the fine for illegal businesses (part 1 of the 171 of the criminal law) from 300,000 to 1.5 million rubles. If the crime is committed by an organized group, the fine will grow from 100,000 to 500 to 2.5 million rubles.

For fraud in the business field (Part 5 of Article 159 of the Criminal Law), the maximum fine for causing significant damage will be increased from 300 to 500 thousand rubles, and for large-scale damage - the range of the fine will be between 100-500 thousand and 150-800 thousand rubles.

For the production of counterfeit money on a large scale or by an organized group, the fine will increase from 1 million to 5 million rubles. For concealment of property during bankruptcy, resulting in great damage (Article 195 of the Criminal Code), it is proposed to increase the fine from 100-500 thousand to 250 thousand-1 million rubles. For officials, the upper limit of the fine will increase from 2 to 2.5 million rubles.

The Ministry of Justice explained the need to increase the fines by saying that for some sections of the criminal law their amounts have not been adjusted for more than 20 years.