Maliciousevasion of repaymentof creditor debts: questionsof a crime qualification

Development of credit relations in Russia in the nineties of the last century has led to
distribution of practice of a non-return credits, which brakes normal functioning of market
relations. The article consists of questions of crime qualification for malicious evasion of
repayment of creditor debts (item 177 of the criminal code of Russian Federation). Despite
the large distribution of non-payments and possibilities opened by this norm in the field
of stabilization of relations between the creditor and the debtor, it has not received wide
application for the reason of absence of the proper judiciary practice, its disputable legislative
interpretation. Therefore it is very important to know problems arising in the way of attraction
to criminal liability all those, who commit the specified crime.

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