Wednesday, February 17, 2016

In the State Duma a draft law designed to rein collectors – BBC News

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko and Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin made in the lower house of parliament a bill to a major change in the activities of collectors. Recently, methods of work “vyshibateley debt” caused a lot of questions.

The collectors do not disdain any means to force people to pay debts on loans. They intimidate debtors, spoiling their property, and sometimes used physical force. At the same time the activity of collectors is still seriously regulated.

Sometimes, because of the actions of unscrupulous collectors suffer any innocent people, even children. The most notorious such case in recent years has become perhaps the incident in Ulyanovsk. There worker collection agency tossed out the window at home Molotov cocktails. The house started a fire, which injured two year old child. When it happened, the boy slept. He suffered serious burns and was taken to hospital.

The incident took place in late January, and the child victim only in mid-February, was released from the medical facility. This Tass reported in the Ministry of Health of the Ulyanovsk region. “The course of treatment is completed, the child was discharged from the institution feels normal boy.”, – Informed the agency

Management area assisted kid family -. It has allocated 50 thousand rubles from the budget. In addition, in March, the boy with his mother at the expense of the area will go to a sanatorium to recover from severe burns and myocardial stress. With regard to the debt collector, he was charged with arson.

In St. Petersburg, also found a collector-arsonist. He slept for two strollers, wanting to intimidate debtors. In the city prosecutor’s office said that the court found him guilty of damaging another’s property and sentenced him to one and a half year suspended sentence with three years probation.

Charged Taras Koval in June 2015 arson of two carriages left residents in the stairwell at home. The damage caused by his actions was estimated at 16.5 thousand rubles.

The question of how to deal with collectors-bespredelschik and how to regulate their activity, has been discussed for a long time. According to the Interior Ministry, only from January to June of last year the Russians have filed about 22 thousand complaints about illegal actions of individuals who call themselves collectors. Experts explain to borrowers that collectors are not allowed to call them at night, that of communicating with debt collectors generally can be dispensed with. However, the collectors themselves it does not stop, and people who could not time repay the banks are exposed.

The legislators want to ban collectors not only use physical force, but even threaten its use. In addition, tabled in the State Duma the draft law states that to prohibit collectors generally used any threats and psychological pressure. Also, tax collectors may prohibit the spread of the debtor and its debt. By law, they can not report the debt to relatives and colleagues of the borrower. For the placement of such information on the Internet, too, they will wait for punishment, radio station “Vesti FM”.

To create a civilized debts collection system called Rospotrebnadzor. Office opposed legalizing “the collection business.” Instead, the legal basis for the functioning of the system of extra-judicial recovery of overdue debts to be created, according to Rospotrebnadzor.

Republic of Crimea acted Guide February 17, with more tough statement. Crimean parliament appealed to the parliament with a request to suspend the operation of all collectors in Russia. Officials explained that they believe debt collectors threat to life and health of citizens. In their view, prohibit collection activities need to adopt a federal law that regulates it.

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