22/05/2025, Tatiana Tsepkina participated in the work of the Working Group on Criminal Procedure under the Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights in Moscow.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, the Moscow City Prosecutor’s Office, the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor’s Office, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, the legal and scientific communities.
Tatiana Sizova, Moscow’s Business Ombudsman, addressed the audience with a welcoming speech, in which she shared her impressions of the recent St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.
The meeting participants discussed the dangerous trend of adding articles on the legalization of property, Articles 174 and 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in addition to the tax structures. The possibility of imputing articles on money laundering after the termination of the tax crime case remains at the discretion of the investigation, which creates a risk for entrepreneurs. In this regard, the most discussed issue was the way to eliminate this legal uncertainty at the legislative level. The participants also discussed the reasons for the small number of acquittals, and issues of legislative regulation of the procedure for providing visits to suspects with relatives, namely with their minor children.
At the end of the meeting, a presentation of the scientific and practical manual “Criminal law mechanisms for countering crimes in the field of currency control and currency regulation” was held – the work of scientists from the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation.
