Duma State supports the proposals of the Ministry of Justice to enhance criminal responsibility for foreigners. This has been declared by the President of the State's Duma Commission to investigate the intervention events of foreign countries in Russian internal affairs, the head of Duma Committee on Duma's Piskarev Security.
The fact is that the Ministry of Justice proposes to strengthen criminal liability for the failure to comply with the law for foreign agents, Deputy Minister of Justice Oleg Svidirenko said at a meeting of the International Law Forum St. Petersburg.
We should agree with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, where we work in close interactions and support their proposals to revise the size of sanctions on foreign agents, Mr. Piskarev said. Our law really refers to foreign agents very well. The practice of law enforcement shows the current mechanisms to keep them not fully meet the requirements of the law.
According to him, the relevant committee has studied international models on criminal legal regulations on the activities of foreign agents. Therefore, in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, because of not complying with the duties of foreign agents is more difficult in Russia. The criminal penalty there is prescribed in the form of imprisonment for up to ten years, while in Russia is much less, Piskarev compared.
“With foreign experience, as well as current calls and threats to the country's security and sovereignty, we think that it is necessary to amend the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, establish sanctions on foreign agents on the present,” he said.
Svidirenko, who has words TassPreviously, he noted that in Russia's law, penalties for the same violations of individuals up to 30 thousand to 50 thousand rubles, and criminal liability can only occur if the law is repeated in the calendar year and the penalty of up to two years in prison. “Stop nurse with objects that do not bring anything good for our country,” he said.