In Russia want to put in jail for the import of embargoed goods

For violation of the prohibition provided for imprisonment for the term from 3 to 12 years

Russia’s Finance Ministry has proposed to introduce criminal liability for the importation of banned products in large volume.

This is stated in the relevant bill prepared by the Ministry and posted on the Federal portal of projects of normative legal acts.

According to the Ministry, currently “of particular importance is the need to increase the responsibility of unscrupulous individuals for evading compliance with the relevant prohibitions and restrictions”. In Department believe that such a rule would “increase the efficiency of combating smuggling of certain types of strategically important goods and resources, in particular timber”.

Thus, the government proposes to equate the import falling under the restrictions of the products to the illegal importation of toxic, explosive and radioactive substances. For violation of this prohibition for the import or export of banned products, the cost of which exceeds 1 million rubles, provides for imprisonment for the term from three till seven years with the penalty to 1 million roubles. The punishment for officials can be from 5 to 10 years of imprisonment with the penalty to 1 million roubles for organized groups – from seven till 12 years of imprisonment with the penalty to 1 million roubles.

We will remind, from-for sanctions of the EU and of the USA in Russia will create a special Bank to service the military-industrial companies.

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