The state Duma adopted the law on the punishment to 10 years for telephone terrorism
Now the maximum penalty for a false mining is five years of imprisonment.
Moscow. 20 Dec. INTERFAX.RU — the state Duma meeting on Wednesday adopted in the third and final reading a law providing for punishment of three to ten years in prison for telephone terrorism.
Currently, the maximum penalty for such a crime (article 207 of the criminal code, knowingly false report about an act of terrorism) is up to five years of imprisonment.
The new law provides four levels of penalties depending on the severity of the consequences and dangers that followed reports of the impending explosion. Now these steps are only two, furthermore, is not separately allocated, the punishment for false report about mining of social facilities and authorities.
The first tier of liability — if an act of hooliganism received a call with a false message about the impending explosion, arson or other actions creating danger of destruction of people, causing significant harm, or the onset of other socially dangerous consequences, the punishment will be a fine in the amount from 200 thousand to 500 thousand rubles or compulsory works for a term of two to three years. In this case, the person will not be deprived of liberty.
The second tier of responsibility for the “mining” of social infrastructure and starting from this stage and all subsequent more serious cases, “the telephone terrorist” it provides for a deprivation of liberty. If the call with false information about a bomb threat was related to social infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, railway stations, kindergartens, banks, rest homes and so on, the punishment would include a fine in the amount from 500 thousand to 700 thousand rubles, or imprisonment for a term of three to five years.
The same penalty will be assigned if the result of the “hooligan” call was major damage to more than 1 million roubles, for example, stopping the operation of the airport because of a bomb threat can result in major financial losses in the aggregate for the airport, airlines and many passengers.