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State Duma of the Russian Federation calls to take out the fraudulent scheme of using escrow accounts

The State Duma urged to pay attention to fraudulent actions that developers can resort to. The question concerns the use of escrow accounts, undervaluation of real estate, as well as its sale to the affiliates. Members of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Public Utilities drew attention to the problem. The MPs called on the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Construction to develop measures to combat the identified abuse. It lies in the fact that some unscrupulous...

State Duma to consider the law on external management in foreign companies in May

After the holidays, the State Duma plans to consider a draft law that provides for the possibility of introduction external management in foreign companies. It is assumed that the document will be adopted in the first reading, and in the future it will be finalized. The draft law, as conceived by the authors, primarily aims to preserve jobs in companies where the share of foreign participation is a quarter or more. In such enterprises, provided that they are producers of essential goods or products...

Russians may soon switch to a four-day working week

The day before, parliamentarian Yaroslav Nilov noted that a four-day working week could be established in Russia in the nearest future. According to the deputy, such a possibility was also prompted by the pandemic, during which some companies switched to a lighter work schedule in order to retain personnel and continue activities. Speaking about such changes, Nilov noted that the main condition for the introduction of a new schedule should be a gradual change, but not a forced implementation at...

State Duma of Russia will consider the bill on increasing payments in case of bankruptcy

The lower house of parliament is to consider a draft law that proposes to increase the amount of payments to employees of bankrupt companies. We are talking about including the debts to employees in the second order, as well as changing the current legislative limit on payments (up to 30 thousand rubles for each month). The initiative was taken by the deputies of the Liberal Democratic Party, who proposed to increase the amount to 100 thousand rubles in connection with the forecasted inflation...

The use of traffic cameras in Russia may be limited

The work on a draft law that will clearly regulate the possibilities of installation traffic cameras is underway in the lower house of Parliament. The document was prepared by the relevant committee on transport - for the first time, specific reasons for installing cameras on Russian roads will appear in it. In addition, drivers will have more rights to challenge fines issued as a result of using such fixation tools. The change is supposed to be made to the law “On highways and road activities”...

State Duma proposed amnesty for economic criminals

Deputies of the lower house of parliament came up with a legislative initiative to introduce amnesty for a number of economic crimes. This was done in order to allow entrepreneurs, who are able to take part in the improvement of the current situation in the country, return ti their activities. Businessmen can help with creating the necessary organizations, as well as jobs. Among the articles of the Criminal Code, in violation of which an amnesty may follow, the fraud, including with the use of...

Yaroslav Nilov proposed to introduce a moratorium on prices for housing and communal services

Deputy Yaroslav Nilov proposed to introduce a moratorium on the growth of tariffs for housing and communal services from mid-summer until the end of this year. The measure is designed to support Russians during the difficult period of the pandemic and falling incomes. The text of the bill has already been published on the portal of legal acts. The explanatory note to the document says that the draft law is aimed at easing the burden of paying utility bills for citizens during the spread of coronavirus...

The size of tax deduction in Russia may be increased by 2.4 times

... to be increased, since the cost of education and treatment is growing, while the established deduction limit still remains at the level of 120 thousand rubles. The idea has already been formalized into a draft law and sent to the chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin, the day before. Among the authors of the initiative, there are Sergei Mironov and Olga Epifanova. The proposed amount for the deduction is 288,608 rubles. The entry of the norm into the force is ...

State Duma considers the legal regulation of the activities of online marketing fraudsters

... of online coaches, who are often called ‘info-gypsies’ is being considered in the lower house of parliament. They offer paid participation in various trainings and marathons, which are designed to help you become ‘richer and happier’. However, the State Duma of the Russian Federation believes that there are many scammers among the participants in the market that has not yet been regulated in Russia, from which citizens need to be protected. The issue of distribution of paid online coaching was ...

State Duma is preparing a law on extrajudicial freezing of accounts

The State Duma is actively working to develop a mechanism to protect citizens from fraudulent activities. Parliamentarians took up a bill that would allow banks to freeze the accounts of so-called droppers without a judicial act. These are the persons to whose accounts the scammers transfer the funds of their victims before withdrawing them from an ATM. The legal problem to be solved by the new law is the lack of such a mechanism at present. A court order is required to freeze an account, even...

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