MOSCOW, April 24 (RAPSI) – Lawmakers from A Just Russia party have submitted a bill to the State Duma on punishment of up to 7 years in prison for illegal enrichment, according to the database of the parliament’s lower house.

The bill would amend the Russian Criminal Code by introducing such element of crime as “illegal enrichment”. Unjust enrichment is major overrun on the cost of officials’ assets over the level of legal income of such individuals, an explanatory note to the document reads.

These offenses would be punished with fines in the amount of fivefold sum of an individual’s enrichment with deprivation of the right to occupy determined posts for up to 3 years, or imprisonment of up to 2 years plus fines.

Officials holding public offices would face fines in the amount of up to tenfold sum of illegal enrichment with deprivation of the right to hold determined positions for up to 3 years or prison terms of up to 3 years with fines.

Large unjust enrichment would result in imprisonment of up to 5 years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions for up to 3 years plus fines.

The same offenses committed on especially large scale would be punishable by prison terms of up to 7 years with fines in the amount of fivefold sum of illegal enrichment, an explanatory note to the bill reads.