The State Duma approved the bill on criminal responsibility for the re driving drunk – The Epoch Times

The State Duma approved the bill on criminal responsibility for the re driving drunk – The Epoch Times

News. Moscow, December 13 /epochtimes.ru/. The State Duma adopted on second reading a bill that criminalizes repeated driving while intoxicated.

If the new bill will be finally adopted, the Criminal Code will introduce a new article 264.1, which is to start operating from July 1, 2015 . In this case, if the driver will fall for drunken driving for a year after the return of driver’s license for a previous similar offense, he will face a fine of 200 to 300 thousand rubles, or up to 480 hours of compulsory labor, or up to two years of forced labor or up to two years in prison.

It will also toughen penalties for drivers who are intoxicated man shot down. If the fault of their own, one person died, the minimum sentence of two years imprisonment if the death of two or more people – from four years.

Now this is an administrative violation. For him, a fine of 50 thousand rubles and deprivation of rights for three years (epochtimes.ru).