Amendments to Art. 86 of the Criminal Code, for two years, extend the maturity of convictions for serious and very serious crimes have been published, «the Russian newspaper», their signed by President Vladimir Putin. The law will come into force on August 3 said in the annotation to the document as «RG». Maturities of convictions for serious crimes increased from six to eight years for the most serious — from eight to 10 years.
The bill was introduced in the State Duma in early June, United Russia deputy Mikhail Starshinov, the adoption of the document in three readings in the House just a month away, the Federation Council approved it at its last meeting on July 10. Cancellation of conviction void all legal consequences associated with a criminal record, the terms of repayment, «appears», understated, as a result, «is not an isolated case,» when people commit new crimes after repayment of a previous criminal record, said in a brief explanatory note to the bill. These judicial inquiry statistics, referred to by the author of the bill, the explanatory note no, do not bring them to the elders and the State Duma meeting.
The lack of validity of the bill pointed out in my review of the Supreme Court, but the government and the relevant committees of the State Duma and the Federation Council found it useful. «Vedomosti» Starshinov said that the addressees of the law are rapists and pedophiles: they often commit new crimes after removing them up after previous conviction. The reasons for haste in which the bill was accepted, the deputy explained these law enforcement officers.
The law is aimed at filtering state agencies from people with a criminal record, he is concerned, in particular, the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky: that after his release can become a figure which lobbies for the West, told «Vedomosti» source close to the presidential administration. The law — insurance against cancellation of the Constitutional Court lifetime ban run anywhere people convicted of serious and very serious crimes, adds the source, «Vedomosti», close to the leadership of the «United Russia».
Conflict with the law can not be in power — this is obvious, it is a request of society, says an official of the Kremlin.
«Vedomosti»