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Alexander Bolomatov, Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", commented for the Vedomosti newspaper on the draft law moved by a group of the United Russia deputies headed by Irina Yarovaya. The draft law raises the upper plank of the administrative liability for theft to 5000 roubles from the current 1000 roubles. Criminal liability arises, when said amount is exceeded, or if a repeat offence for an amount over 1000 roubles is committed within one year.

Alexander Bolomatov, Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", commented for Rg.ru on the importance of creation of an accelerated development area in Kamchatka and told why Korean investors show much interest in investing into Russian economy.

Partner of the Law Firm "YUST" Alexander Bolomatov commented for the RBC newspaper on the news that LUKOIL threatened Mikhail Leontiev, the Spokesman of Rosneft, who had voiced his doubts concerning the Company’s victory in the tender for the Eastern Taimyr plot.

The Russian developers have started to employ a new fraud. They indicate larger apartment areas in the documents, and the purchasers find out that their residences are in reality smaller, they refuse to return the money for the “false” square meters. And we are talking hundreds of thousands of roubles. Dmitry Zheleznov, Associate of the Law Firm "YUST", told on the air of the Russia’s Morning program on the Russia 1 TV channel what to do in the case of a fraud like this.

The days of the certificates of legal salary, which the banks used to require from potential borrowers, are going. The largest banks now receive the information on the real amounts of the legal salaries of each citizen directly from the State Pension Fund of Russia. The number of such queries is growing steadily: the banks have sent 3.4 million queries to the PFR in seven months. Olga Zaytseva, Associate of the Law Firm "YUST", told Nezavisimaya Gazeta how the situation will develop if a commercial bank, having received the information on the borrower from the PFR, transfers the powers to exact the debt to collectors, that is – cedes the rights to claim under an agreement of a consumer’s credit to a third party.

The senators decided to put the rules of familiarizing the accused and their defendants with the criminal cases in order. The respective amendments to the Penal Procedural Code have already been submitted to the State Duma. The investigation loses its ability to constantly add new documents to the criminal case files. On the other hand, the investigators will be able to set clear deadlines for the attorneys and their charges to read large books of the case materials. Igor Pastukhov, Adviser of the Law Firm "YUST", sees the draft law as a whole as “reasonable and useful”.

Maxim Rovinskiy, Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", commented for the Russian Business Newspaper on the Council of the Federation’s suggestion to introduce benefits for those Russian companies, which are honest taxpayers. Such benefits could include exemption from checks for certain periods, simpler and faster administrative proceedings, subsidies, granting tax extensions.