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In the State Duma will be introduced a bill criminalizing the theft of vehicle registration plates.

This is a fairly common type of crime: the culprit left a ransom note for the return numbers. Often the victims are motorists who come from other regions, which would be especially problematic restore numbers through the traffic police. And criminals little risk in this case.

- By law, the removal of numbers is not theft, because registration number of state-owned and not owned by the motorist - Says deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexey Makarov . - However, the new number will not give the car owner until he returns old or not write a statement that the number lost. In addition, he will have to pay legal costs in the amount of 1500 rubles. The police did not take up such matters as vacations and do not fall under any article of the Criminal Code .

Under the new legislative initiative for the kidnapping numbers will be punished by a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles or the salary or other income for a period of eighteen months, or hard labor for a term not exceeding two years, or imprisonment for the same term.