The lawyer warned about the threat of imprisonment for fictitious registration in the apartment

Property owners in Russia face hefty fines or imprisonment for fictitious registration of citizens. Ilya Rusyaev, a lawyer and founder of the Rusyaev Club community, announced this on February 27.

"Many owners are confident that if they have registered according to all the rules and the documents are in order, then there can be no problems. In practice, this is not the case," he said in an interview with RT.

According to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, any registration is considered fictitious if a person did not initially plan to live at the address, and the owner did not intend to provide him with housing. For such actions, penalties are provided in the form of fines from 100 to 500 thousand rubles, forced labor or imprisonment.

Law enforcement agencies pay special attention to cases of mass registration of people for monetary compensation, it is precisely such situations that most often become the reason for initiating criminal cases, the Newspaper adds.Ru.

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