Parliament today approved a number of amendments to the Criminal Code, IPN reports.
One amendment raises the bar for “large material damages” caused by a criminal offense from 20 to 40 average monthly salaries, and the threshold for “extremely large material damages” from 40 to 100 average monthly salaries.
PAS lawmaker Igor Chiriac said the amendment aims to decriminalize some of the existing offenses by categorizing them as less serious.
Also, “fraud” is redefined as “the premeditated act of gaining illicit possession of someone else’s property by knowingly misleading that person, by misrepresenting a falsehood as truth or a true fact as false, by giving a false name or identity, which results in an unjust transmission of property to the perpetrator or to other person and in unjust enrichment”. The offense of fraud will be punishable by fines ranging from 550 to 1,000 conventional units, or 120 to 240 hours of community service, or up to 3 years in prison.
Fraud with the use of false documents and records will carry aggravated penalties, and so will fraud targeting items of cultural heritage, and fraud committed by a group or a criminal organization.
