The Draft Law On Tightening Punishment For Contractual Matches Is Approved By The Committee Of The Verkhovna Rada

The bill, designed to fight corruption in sports, was recommended by the committee of the verkhovna rada on the legislative support of law enforcement agency for adoption as a basis. This was reported by the press service of the verkhovna rada of ukraine.

The regulatory legal act defines the basic principles, methods for identifying and preventing crushing processes in the sports field, and also establishes the measure of punishment for them.

The document assumes the addition of the criminal code of the new article, providing for such a punishment for the contractual matches: a penalty in the amount of 200-1000 non-taxable minimum income or imprisonment for up to 3 years.

A article will appear in coooo, providing for a similar penalty for a violation of the ban on sports rates that are associated with the organization of contractual matches; the offender will also lose the right to work in some posts or in a certain field during the year.

It has previously known that the federation football federation proposed a tightened punishment for the organizers of dishonest sports fights in the form of a fine in the amount of more than $ 110 thousand. And imprisonment for a period of 2-5 years.