February 17, 2016, 13:53 | The State Duma | Naryshkin | Matvienko | Collectors
State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin and Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko made to the State Duma a bill that sets the rules of engagement collectors with debtors, reported “Interfax” in the Federation Council Committee on Budget and financial markets.
Its provisions are tightening requirements for employees collection agencies in terms of cooperation with the debtor and increase fines for violations tenfold, up to 2 million rubles.
According to the bill, the collection agency registered capital shall be not less than 10 million rubles. All collectors should be composed in the registry, that will guide the Government authorized body. At work in the collection agencies authors of the bill propose to ban taking persons having a criminal record for economic crimes and public safety.
In addition, the bill limits communication collector to the debtor by personal encounters no more than once a week, calls not more than twice a week. It prohibited communication from 20:00 to 9:00 on weekends from 22:00 to 8:00 on weekdays. In addition, it is intended to prohibit the collectors to use force or threaten its use, as well as to provide psychological pressure on the debtor.
Employees of collection agencies also want to prohibit contact with minors and incapacitated citizens. The document introduces a ban on the use of devices that hide the caller’s number or e-mail
«Those agencies, which abused their rights, terrorizing people, knocked out of them, and did not return the debt -. Such agencies will leave the market as a result of adoption of the law “, – said Valentina Matvienko, the TV channel” Russia 24 ».
in turn, the head of the Duma Committee on financial markets, Nikolai Gonchar has told RIA Novosti that the Committee will consider a bill to limit the rights of collectors in Russia . on a priority basis
Earlier consideration in the State Duma a bill three options have been made to regulate the work of collectors: from the “Fair Russia”, LDPR and the Federation Council. At the same time, representatives of the Public Chamber in favor of a total ban collectors instead of trying to regulate their activities.
The requirements to enter the legal regulation of collection activity began to sound after a series of controversial cases involving collectors knocked out the debts. In particular, the Ulyanovsk local resident threw in a private house window bottle of flammable liquid fire hit a 56-year-old man, who did not return on time credit and two year old child.
However, the new bill on the collector activity appeared after as the State Council of Crimea asked the State Duma and the Federation Council of the Russian Federation to pass laws strictly regulating the activity of collection agencies in Russia. It is noted that in terms of economic, transport, water, food and energy blockade by Ukraine about 350 thousand inhabitants of the Crimea forced to limit themselves in everything, to pay the debts to collection agencies.
At the end of December, the State Duma adopted in the third reading law requiring residents of the Crimea to repay debts to the Ukrainian banks and stipulating a special procedure for calculations. It was about the debt under the loan agreements entered into as of March 18, 2014 – the day of the Crimea to Russia. Prior to that, the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov urged residents of the region to postpone repayment of loans obtained in Ukrainian banks before the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, collectors and threatened with criminal charges.
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