2024-01-31 11:38:00
Adopted by 377 votes in favor and without votes against or abstentions, this new law aims to “punish traitors” according to the President of the State Duma, who tarnish the image of Russia.
Russian deputies adopted a law this Wednesday, January 31, aimed at confiscating the money and property of any person found guilty of having disseminated “false information” about the army, in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine.
“A law on scoundrels has been adopted,” the speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Telegram.
The text was adopted at both second and third readings, its final approval having been validated by 377 votes in favor, with no votes against or abstentions. “This decision will make it possible to punish those who act against their country (…), to confiscate their property and their money,” he stressed.
Reprimanding critics of the Kremlin
According to Vyacheslav Volodin, “the absolute majority” of Russians “support the need to punish traitors” who tarnish the image “of our country, its soldiers and its officers” engaged in Ukraine.
The text will now go to the Federation Council, the upper house of Parliament, before its promulgation expected by Russian President Vladimir Putin. This document is a new illustration of the measures taken to repress criticism against the Kremlin after almost two years of offensive in Ukraine.
In fact, the law does not provide for confiscating absolutely all the property of a convicted person, but for seizing their money and funds “used or intended” to finance “criminal” activities, terms which however remain very vague. The text also plans to authorize the courts to withdraw all state honorary distinctions from people convicted of “false information”.
The charge of spreading “false information” about the Russian military carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years. Several hundred ordinary Russians have been convicted under this article of the Criminal Code for almost two years. Moscow made criticism of the military illegal shortly after launching its assault on Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
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