News - Adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Amending the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code of Ukraine to Improve Liability for Declaration of False Information and Non-Submission by a Declarant of the Declaration of Person Authorized to Perform the Functions of the State or Local Self-Government” with proposals of the President of Ukraine - Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Amending the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code of Ukraine to Improve Liability for Declaration of False Information and Non-Submission by a Declarant of the Declaration of Person Authorized to Perform the Functions of the State or Local Self-Government” with proposals of the President of Ukraine

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
Published on 29 June 2021, at 16:22

Adopted the Law of Ukraine No. 4651 “On Amending the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code of Ukraine to Improve Liability for Declaration of False Information and Non-Submission by a Declarant of the Declaration of Person Authorized to Perform the Functions of the State or Local Self-Government” with proposals of the President of Ukraine.
The Law of Ukraine No. 4651 reinstates the sanction in the form of deprivation of liberty (as one of the possible types of punishment) for lying in electronic declarations or failure to submit such declaration. There will be a twofold decrease in the threshold of emergence of criminal liability for declaring false information: down to 2,000 times the minimum subsistence level for able-bodied persons.

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