Azerbaijan imposes new punishments for earning incomes from illegal business

Azerbaijan imposes new punishments for earning incomes from illegal business
# 28 September 2017 15:46 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan imposes stiff punishments on those who earn incomes from illegal business and cause a large amount of damage.

APA reports that provisions #3.1 and 3.2 are proposed to be annexed to the article #192 of the Criminal Code.

According to the proposal, implementation of business activity without registration in the order provided by the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic, or without special sanction (license) in cases when such sanction (license) is mandatory, or with infringement of conditions of licensing, which caused damage to citizens, organizations or state in the significant size, as well as committed with extraction of income in the significant size is punished by the fourfold penalty of the income (or damage caused by abovementioned crime) or restriction of freedom for the term from five years to seven years.

The draft amendment will be discussed at the parliament after public hearing on September 29.

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