The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (CC RF) will toughen punishment for crimes committed using IT technologies.
This is reported by Izvestia, citing a document available to the editors — an instruction from the head of the government commission on crime prevention, Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation jointly with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
These and «other interested departments» are instructed to work out «issues on supplementing: 16.1. Article 63 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation [article «Circumstances aggravating punishment», editor's note] with a new aggravating circumstance of committing a crime using information and communication technologies».
The government commission also proposes to supplement Articles No. 104.1, No. 5 and No. 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with provisions establishing the possibility of confiscating digital currency recognized as property for the purposes of criminal law. The commission on crime prevention expects results from the departments by December 1, 2024.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a record number of IT crimes were registered in 2023 — 677 thousand. More than half of the registered crimes committed using IT technologies belong to the categories of serious and especially serious crimes. The number of crimes using the Internet, mobile communications and plastic cards has grown the most.
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