the Amendments are article 230 of the Criminal code of “inclining to consumption of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues”.
Introduces an additional aggravating circumstance – use of the crime is information-telecommunication networks (including the Internet), said the Chairman of the Commission Vasily Piskarev.
the Internet significantly increases the degree of social danger of the criminal offence, he explained. The fact that “the use of high technology greatly enhances the ability of drug sentencing our citizens to drug use”.
– Therefore, we propose to introduce greater responsibility, if such actions entailed on imprudence death of two and more victims, – continued the Deputy, in the form of deprivation of liberty for a term of 12 to 15 years with deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term up to 20 years.
Developing these amendments, the Commission, according to him, acted in accordance with the instructions of the President and provisions of Strategy of state antidrug policy of the Russian Federation for the period until 2020.
– the adoption of the law will help clear the Internet of sites and pages in social networks where drugs are sold, and punished by long terms of imprisonment of the organizers and participants of destructive groups predispose adolescents and young people to drug use, concluded Vasily Piskarev.
According to the explanatory Memorandum, consuming the drug regularly, and occasionally 1.9 million people. At the same time last year, the number of identified law enforcement authorities of crimes related to illicit drug trafficking using the Internet increased by almost a third (from 18 to 24 918 817).
