Wasserman supplemented the ban on storing more than a million rubles at home with the words “the earth is full of knocks”

The MP explained the essence of the bill prepared by him

Deputy Anatoly Wasserman (“SR”) came up with a radical means of combating corruption, the shadow economy and extremist activities: to prosecute those who keep more than 1 million rubles in cash at home. Law enforcement agencies will identify violators, according to the deputy, during searches of those suspected of other crimes – or during the verification of denunciations received from caring citizens.

An initiative of the appropriate content has been prepared and recently sent to the government and the Supreme Court, Wasserman told MK: it is impossible to submit bills on amendments to the Criminal Code to the State Duma without official feedback from these institutions.

From the text of the bill, which the journalists got acquainted with, it follows: a tax resident of the Russian Federation (that is, a citizen living in the country for at least 183 days during the year) will be required to notify the Federal Tax Service that he has more than 1 million rubles kept at home ( or the amount in foreign currency, which in terms of rubles “pulls” more than a million).

The notice must contain information about the source of funds. If the tax authorities do not receive data within a week from the moment the cash appears, the citizen will be considered a criminal.

Mr. Wasserman proposes to supplement the Criminal Code with a new article – 187.1, punishing for “illegal circulation of funds.” The punishment for it is a fine twice the amount of money stored at home, with the confiscation of the money itself.

In the explanatory note to the bill, the Right Russian explains the need for exotic, to put it mildly, measures: “Large amounts of cash kept by citizens, as a rule, are the result of activities in the shadow or even “black” sector of the economy, and therefore require special attention and control , which is currently not possible due to the lack of any legal regulation in this area. The deputy is confident that the ban he is introducing will become “an effective tool in the fight against corruption, as well as against extremist activities.”

To the question of “MK” about how exactly criminals will be identified, that is, those who keep more than a million at home, but did not notify the authorities about this, Anatoly Wasserman answered this way: “For example, if they came to you with a search for another reason and found a large amount of cash, about which the Federal Tax Service was not notified, then you will have to answer for them later. To a clarifying question: “And if the law enforcement officers suddenly didn’t come to someone with a search in another case?” The deputy noted that “the earth is full of knocking, and law enforcement agencies are obliged to check all the signals received by them.”

Spravoross is not afraid that the data electronically transmitted to the Federal Tax Service on the exact amount of money stored at someone’s house in the event of a leak will be an excellent help to robbers and burglars: “the bases have not been leaked from us for a very long time,” he is sure.

We will await with interest the responses of the government and the Supreme Court.