In the explanatory noteto the bill that Vyacheslav Volodin is talking about, it is stated that the draft federal law is aimed at increasing the criminal liability of persons involving minors in committing crimes and antisocial acts, including using information and telecommunications networks (including the Internet). In modern realities, such acts committed using IT technologies are becoming increasingly widespread due to the lack of direct contact between the victim and pakistan whatsapp resource the criminal, anonymity and the ability to reach a large audience of minors. In the structure of crime associated with the involvement of minors in committing crimes, the leadership remains in the sale of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances."
"In 2023, the number of cases of drug trafficking involving teenagers increased by 52.3% (from 1.4 thousand to 2.1 thousand cases). At the same time, minors are usually involved in committing these acts through the use of IT networks. In this regard, the bill proposes to supplement the provision of Part 2 of Article 150 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with the qualifying feature "or using information and telecommunications networks (including the Internet)". Similar changes are applicable to the provision of Part 2 of Article 151 of this Code," the explanatory note says.
At the time of publication of the material, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not send a response with statistics of such offenses for the first half of 2024. When asked by a ComNews correspondent whether employees of OOO VK (VK) recorded illegal cases of involving minors in crimes, a representative of the VK press service said that VK platforms operate in accordance with Russian legislation.
Pavel Katkov, founder of the law firm Future Legal, assumes that when working on amendments to Article 150 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the term will be raised to eight years, since Part 4 of this article already provides for such a term, and they will most likely include it in it. "But for Article 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, seven years will be an increase, since four years is the limit for it for now. In any case, the effect will only be when the Ministry of Internal Affairs includes the detection rate for these offenses in the plan and raises it, and this is already the will of the minister," Pavel Katkov believes.