Practice of corruption proceeds recovery in the Russian Federation

Abstract

Federal Law No. 230-FZ “On Controlling the Correspondence of Expenditures of Persons Holding State Positions and Other Persons with Their Income” dated December 3, 2012 made possible to recover for illegal income of public officer, members of their families and other persons. These changes have become a logical development of legal regulation on corruption counteraction and legalization (laundering) of crime proceeds. These changes have become a logical development of corruption counteraction regulation and legalization (laundering) of crime proceeds law. In recent years, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office practice of collecting corruption proceeds has been gaining monumental in terms of the categories and amounts of recovered income, as well as the scope of liable persons, the factual and legal grounds for the claims. The stated facts themselves make it interesting to analyses certain trends and their overall legal validity.