In the State Duma a bill on criminal liability for legal entities – BBC

The deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation Alexander Remezkov submitted to the Duma a bill on the introduction of the institute of criminal liability of legal persons, reports RIA “Novosti» .

« The draft law provides for the addition of the legislation of the Russian Federation, the system of legal norms that form in its unity Institute of corporate criminal liability, “- said in a memorandum.

In order to standardize the principles of criminal liability bill is supposed to apply the provisions of the general part of the Criminal Code, determining the penal consequences of committing a crime, both in relation to the physical, and in relation to legal persons.

Earlier, the need to introduce criminal liability of legal entities said the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin.