Business asks Medvedev not to prosecute cartels

The letter was sent after the FAS drafted a number of bills strengthening criminal liability for collusive cartel. Thus, it is proposed that the maximum duration of this violation be extended from three to four years, and for the members of the boards of directors and the majority shareholders participating, up to eight years. The term may be more: for example, if the crime is committed by an organized group in order to extract income on a particularly large scale, it can reach ten years. According to the project, the income of all participants in the agreement, exceeding 100 million rubles and especially the largest – more than 500 million rubles is considered a significant income.

to the inadmissibility of reducing the level of evidence of cartel violations in combination with "the radical hardening of responsibility and the widening of the range of people held responsible, as well as empowerment antitrust authorities with excessive powers. " They also report that in other countries, such as Australia, Norway and Japan, participation in cartel collusion is not punishable by imprisonment, although the law stipulates

"From this point of view opposes in principle the incrimination of liability for the conclusion of cartels and considers that persons involved in cartel should not be isolated from society, "says the letter. An informal arrangement is being made to manipulate prices artificially. Earlier, the deputy head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Andrei Tsyganov estimated the annual damage of these agreements in 2% of GDP. Among the areas most prone to cartelization, he called the construction, including the road, as well as the sphere of state protection, transport and housing and communal services.