Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law increasing the penalty for violations of the rules of conduct in rail transport, including the actions of hooks. Document published on the official portal of legal information.
Thus, criminals who get on or off the train illegally, travel on stairs, on the roofs of cars and other places not designed for this, as well as arbitrarily stop the train, will have to pay from 2 to 4 thousand rubles.
The amount of the fine did not change for 20 years and amounted to 100 rubles.
Initially with an attempt to increase the amount of the penalty spoke Sergey Neverov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Vasily Piskarev, chairman of the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, and other high-ranking senators and deputies from United Russia.