1. False measurement, false weighing, overcharging, misleading with regard to consumer properties or the quality of goods (service), or other deception of consumers at stores or at other enterprises which sell goods or render services to the population, regardless of their form of ownership, or by citizens who are registered in the sphere of trade (services), if these actions are committed in a considerable amount, -
shall be punished by a fine in an amount from one hundred up to two hundred monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period from one to two months, or by engagement in public works for a period from one hundred eighty up to two hundred forty hours, or by correctional labour for a period from one year up to two years, or by detention under arrest for a period up to six months.
2. The same acts committed:
a) by a person who was earlier convicted for deception of consumers;
b) by a group of persons upon a preliminary collusion or by an organised group;
c) in a large amount, -
shall be punished by imprisonment for a period up to two years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain types of activity for a period up to three years.
Note. Deception shall be recognised as committed in considerable amount, if it caused damage to consumers in an amount exceeding one third of a monthly calculation base, and as committed in a large amount, if it caused damage to consumers in an amount not less that three monthly assessment indices.
Article 224. Receipt of Illegal Remuneration
1. Illegal receipt by an employee of a state body or a state-owned organisation who is not a person authorised to carry out state functions or a person equated to such person,as well as by an employee of a non-state organisation who does not exercise managerial functions, of material remuneration, privileges, or services of a material nature, for the performance of work or the rendering of a service which are within the range of his duties, if this act is accompanied by extortion, -
shall be punished by deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain types of activity for a period up to three years, or by a fine in an amount up to one hundred monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period up to one month, or by engagement in public works for a period up to one hundred twenty hours, or by correctional labour for a period up to one year, or by detention under arrest for a period up to three months.
2. The same act committed repeatedly or associated with the receipt of remuneration in a large amount, -
shall be punished by deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain types of activity for a period up to five years, or by correctional labour for a period from one to two years, or by detention under arrest for a period from three to six months, or by imprisonment for a period up to two years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain types of activity for a period up to three years.
Note. Receipt of illegal remuneration shall be recognised as committed in a large amount, if an amount received by a given person or the value of services rendered to him, exceeds three hundred monthly assessment indices.