The State Duma rejected the bill on a new criminal article for "auto-theft"

The State Duma rejected a bill that proposed to introduce a separate criminal article for intentionally creating an accident in order to extort money (auto insurance). This is reported on the website of the lower house of parliament.

The draft law was supposed to single out the deliberate creation of an accident for the purpose of extortion as an independent type of crime and impose a penalty of up to four years in prison, and in cases of its commission by a group of persons by prior agreement or causing serious harm to the victim's health — up to seven years. This generally corresponds to the penalties provided for fraud and extortion, the authors of the idea noted.

The State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation in its response to the bill explained that crimes against traffic safety and operation of transport are already contained in art. 27 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

"An indication in the projected norm for the purpose of creating a traffic accident, such as extortion, in the absence of signs characterizing extortion listed in Part 1 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, is not sufficient to classify this crime as crimes against property," the committee's conclusion says.

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The day before, it was reported that the State Duma proposed to ban the automatic transfer of fines to the former owner of the car within the prescribed 10-day period after the conclusion of the purchase agreement.

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