MOSCOW. July 5 (Interfax) - A bill that proposes confiscating money, valuables and other assets for organizing illegal migration has been submitted to the State Duma.
This initiative was added to the Russian parliament's legislative activity database on Friday.
The bill proposes applying the penal law provisions on the confiscation of money, valuables and other property obtained by committing a crime to situations that involve organizing illegal migration flows.
The bill proposes to amend the Russian Criminal Code by applying seizure of assets in this category of criminal cases, if the crime was committed for mercenary reasons.
"Seizure of property has quite serious preemptive potential. It eliminate conditions that are conducive to committing a crime. It makes the crime economically unviable, stripping the offender of the 'profits' he could have obtained as a result of committing the crime, a factor which, in turn, is able to considerably reduce the scale of the 'black' economy linked to the organization of illegal migration flows," the authors of this bill said in an explanatory note.
The bill has been drawn up by a large group of MPs from various parliamentary factions.