A draft on the release of convicted war participants was submitted to the Duma
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The heads of the committees on constitutional legislation of the State Duma and the Federation Council, Pavel Krasheninnikov and Andriy Klyshas, as well as deputy Iryna Pankina, submitted a bill to the Duma, which contains a proposal to exempt from criminal liability the participants in the war against Ukraine who committed crimes of minor or moderate severity. The document is published on the website of the State Duma.
It states that those who have been mobilized or who have signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense will be exempt from criminal liability from the day they are dismissed from service or awarded a state award. On the same grounds, it is proposed to remove the criminal record from the participants in the war. The law is proposed to be extended to convicts whose sentences have entered into force since the day of the law’s adoption.
In the explanatory note to the document, it is stated that the legal mechanism of release from responsibility “will contribute to the achievement of the goals of the punishment” and “provide additional opportunities for the recruitment of armed forces”, reports “Dozhd”.
Earlier, the State Duma Committee on Defense approved the possibility of conscription into the army under a contract during the period of mobilization of citizens with a criminal record. The new draft law defines the mechanism for removing this criminal record. Klyshas and Krasheninnikov, as a rule, introduce bills approved by the Kremlin to the State Duma. In April, a draft law was introduced in the State Duma, allowing courts, prosecutors, and investigators to close criminal cases of minor and moderate severity, if the defendants expressed their willingness to serve in “military formations.” However, the document submitted by the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region was not considered.
PMC “Wagner” began to recruit prisoners of war last summer. According to the confession of its head Yevgeny Prigozhin, about 10 thousand prisoners died near Bakhmut. After the expiration of six months of the contract, the former prisoners were released – apparently, pardoned by the closed decrees of the president. The draft law is obviously intended to legalize such a practice, but it applies to the Ministry of Defense, not to PMC “Wagner”. At the same time, the PMC also recruited those convicted of serious crimes, and the prisoners recruited into “Wagner” could be released after six months. It is practically impossible to resign from military service before the end of mobilization (and the decree on it continues to apply).
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