Imprisonment for fraud or theft is strictly defined from 5 to 8 years

At the Thirty-Second Plenary Session of the Senate, the law “On amendments and additions to certain legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan” was considered.

The law introduces the Criminal Code, the code of administrative responsibility and the corresponding amendments to the law “On compulsory insurance of civil liability of the carrier”.

Recently, a lot of crimes of robbery, fraud, theft of other people's property have been committed using electronic means of payment or remote service systems. Today, this offense is classified by articles 168, 169 of the Criminal Code, which are called fraud, theft. But at the same time it is known that the punishment prescribed in these articles is doing relief.

Therefore, the punishment for such types of crimes is being aggravated by this law. That is, now a fine of 300 to 400 times the amount of the base calculation is paid for the crime of fraud committed illegally entering and using information systems. Now this amount is from 100 to 300.

Or if, according to the current norm, a prison sentence of 3 to 5 years is established for this crime, now this period is strictly defined from 5 to 8 years.