The law on amending the Criminal Code was approved

The law on amending the Criminal Code was approved
Information about convictions resulting from court sentences of foreign countries will be taken into account when determining punishment in Azerbaijan.

Qazet.az reports that this was included in the law on amending the Criminal Code approved by President Ilham Aliyev.

According to the amendments, Articles 83.1-1, 99-5.5 and 99-10 were added to the Code with the following contents:

"83.1-1. When information about a conviction based on a court sentence of a foreign state for an act considered a crime under the legislation of both the Republic of Azerbaijan and the foreign state in whose territory it was committed is received in the course of criminal prosecution and the relevant sentence is recognized in the manner established by law in the Republic of Azerbaijan, this conviction is also in the case of recidivism of crimes and the imposition of punishment. is taken into account when making.";

"99-5.5. When re-imposing a criminal-legal measure in the form of a fine or deprivation of the right to engage in a certain activity to a legal entity against whom a criminal-legal measure was previously applied, the criminal-legal measures provided for in Articles 99-6.3 and 99-7.2 of this Code, respectively A criminal-legal measure below the middle limit of the lower and upper limits cannot be prescribed.";

"Article 99-10. The period required to consider that a legal person has not previously been subject to a criminal-legal measure

99-10.1. A legal person is considered not to have been subject to criminal legal action in the following cases:

99-10.1.1. when one year has passed from the day when the legal person on whom a criminal-legal measure has been applied for a crime that does not cause a great public danger has completed the execution of that criminal-legal measure;

99-10.1.2. when two years have passed since the day when the legal person on whom a criminal-legal measure was applied for a less serious crime ended the implementation of that criminal-legal measure;

99-10.1.3. when six years have passed since the day when the legal entity on which a criminal-legal measure was applied for a serious crime ended the implementation of that criminal-legal measure;

99-10.1.4. in particular, when eight years have passed since the day when the criminal-legal measure was applied to the legal entity for a serious crime.