WithSenator Poletaev, in response to Volodin’s idea of confiscation, recalled the logic of the Criminal Code To add an additional penalty in the form of confiscation of property to a number of articles of the Criminal Code, it is possible, but the logic of its construction should not be violated, Senator Vladimir Poletaev believes
Vladimir Poletaev
The Federation Council will promptly consider a legislative initiative to confiscate the property of those convicted of discrediting the armed forces, if it is introduced, but its provisions should not violate the logic of the construction of the Criminal Code. This was stated to RBC by Senator, first deputy head of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and state Construction of the Federation Council Vladimir Poletaev.
Earlier, the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin published a post in Telegram, in which he proposed to supplement the Criminal Code with a clause on the confiscation of property from those who moved abroad, but continues to “publicly pour dirt on Russia”. According to him, individual statements of such people can be regarded as the rehabilitation of Nazism, calls for extremism or discrediting the armed forces of Russia.
“Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin has the right of legislative initiative. If he prepares the relevant bill, we will definitely consider it carefully and promptly,” Volodin Poletaev commented on the statement.
“But in general, this will require changes in the articles of the Criminal Code. In theory, it is possible to add confiscation as an additional punishment, but for this you need to analyze the components of [crimes], correlate them with the severity, etc.,” the senator added.
He recalled that the articles of the Criminal Code should be correlated with each other. “If we have, for example, economic crimes, then, of course, confiscation of property is already prescribed in them. If we have such crimes as poaching, then there is also the confiscation of funds and objects that participated in poaching. That is, there is a logic of the construction of the Criminal Code, it should not change. We now have a fairly coherent system of building compositions, sanctions, and it should remain unified, there should be no fallout,” Poletaev stressed.
Earlier, Senator Sergey Tsekov proposed to confiscate the property of “all Russian citizens who have left the country and criticize it”. Commenting on the statement, the head of the Committee on Constitutional legislation and state Construction of the Federation Council Andrei Klishas called it shocking and stressed that it contradicts the Constitution.
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In addition, other proposals have been made at various times to impose restrictions on those who left Russia because of the special operation and mobilization. Volodin, for example, proposed to raise the tax rate for such citizens, and deputy Oleg Golikov proposed to limit the right to be elected to elective positions in municipal and state authorities of Russia, as well as the right to undergo civil service.
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