The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has developed a bill proposing to increase the amount of fines for 36 crimes of an economic nature. This was reported by Interfax.
The bill concerns trains, where the thresholds for the dimensional characteristics of major and especially major damages have been increased.
For example, the Ministry of Justice plans to increase the penalty for tax evasion. Now according to this article an amount from 100 to 300 thousand rubles is predicted. It is proposed to increase this value from “500 thousand rubles to 1.5 million rubles”.
The agency stated that an agreement has already been reached with the Ministry of Economic Development on this bill.
It was known in the State Duma in July get ready Changes to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation that may increase the possibility of property seizure for corruption crimes. If the bill is passed, confiscation will apply not only to illegally obtained property, but also to all property of the offender, as well as to the property of his adult children and parents.
Formerly State Duma approved changes in tax legislation.