MOSCOW, May 26 (RAPSI) – Lawmakers from the United Russia party, Igor Igoshin and Nadezhda Shaidenko, have submitted a bill to the lower house of parliament that would allow seizure of assets belonging to individuals found guilty of embezzlement, according to the State Duma database.

The amendments are proposed to the Criminal Code of Russia.

According to the bill’s authors, confiscation of property belonging to people who committed embezzlement would make it possible to compensate damage caused to the state by such crimes.