With the encouragement of the consumption of drugs via the Internet is jailed for 15 years

a Group of deputies from all factions in the Duma introduced a bill providing for criminal responsibility for declination to consumption of narcotics, psychotropic substances or their analogues via the Internet, the correspondent “of Rosbalt”.

Also proposed to introduce enhanced criminal liability for such acts if they have entailed on imprudence death of two or more people in the form of deprivation of liberty for a term of 12 to 15 years with deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term up to 20 years or without such deprivation.

under the existing criminal law is no aggravating circumstance, providing for the encouragement of the consumption of drugs via the Internet, said in the state Duma.

the MPs also highlighted the growth of drug-related crimes committed through the Internet, in 2019, the number of which has increased by almost a third (31.2%). This category of drug-related crimes accounting for 8.3% of all crimes committed with the use of such technologies identified by the bodies of internal Affairs, and 13.2% of all crimes in the sphere of drug trafficking, according to the explanatory note to the draft.

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