The President announced this during a meeting with the Chairman of the Prosecutor General's Office Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin.
The federal law increases the penalty for organising a criminal association or participating in one, limits early parole or replacing an unserved portion of a sentence with a softer penalty for those convicted under Article 210 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code, Organisation of a Criminal Community (Criminal Organisation).
For these purposes, the definition of criminal association (criminal organisation) has been clarified and made fully consistent with the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime adopted November 15, 2000.