The Ministry of Justice proposed to increase the thresholds for large and especially large thefts from 250 thousand to 1.5 million rubles. and from 1 million to 6 million rubles. respectively. According to the department, the current criteria, many of which have not been revised for more than 20 years, do not match the changing economic conditions and result in criminal prosecution for acts that do not constitute a major public danger. This is what the director of the Department of Criminal and Administrative Legislation in the Ministry of Justice, Maria Jose-Ivnina, said at a round table in the Federation Council.
As an example, she cited the case of a person who in 2025 cut down two spruce and two aspen trees, causing damage of 6,000 rubles. He was prosecuted, and his conviction remained in the appeal and penal courts. Only the Supreme Court noted that the act does not constitute a sufficient public danger to be considered a crime. In another case, a criminal case was opened against a woman who in 2021 left the store without paying for purchases worth 3,642 rubles. She offered to pay immediately for the goods, but only the Supreme Court rejected the case, pointing to the lack of corpus delicios.
A completely unconscious proposal - how will we renew the budget with such crazy liberalization?