Tens of thousands of people could be released if the Ministry of Justice's proposals to raise the threshold for grand theft are approved.
Lawyer Mikhail Baniash told Duzhed about this, referring to the initiative of the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice proposes, due to inflation, to raise the threshold for major thefts from 250,000 rubles to 1.5 million rubles, and for particularly large thefts from 1 million to 6 million rubles.
This is not a political issue, but a universal human one. If these amendments are adopted, but they have not yet been introduced, then it could affect about a quarter, if not more, of the convicts, since the most common crime in Russia is theft, and together with other crimes against property (fraud, embezzlement, robbery, robbery, etc.) it constitutes the main body of criminal cases in principle.
- Beniasch explained.
He noted that in 2025 alone, 267 thousand 132 people were convicted of crimes against property (theft, fraud, embezzlement, robbery, robbery, extortion, theft), of which 184 thousand 964 people were convicted by special order.
According to his calculations, if the amendments are adopted tens of thousands of people could be released, and in general the reform could affect several hundred thousand people.
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