Responsibility for Computer Crimes Provided by CIS and Baltic countries Criminal Law

Date: October 15, 2003
Source: Computer Crime Research Center
By: Ukraine's Criminal Code

... within the term from three to seven years.

Article 291. Violation of electronic computer, system or network operating rules

1. Violation of electronic computer, system or network operating rules on the part of a person having an access to electronic computers, their systems or networks resulted in erasing, blocking or modifying law protected computer information and caused considerable damage is punished with denial of particular position or activity privileges within up to five years.

2. The same action entailed imprudently grave consequences is punished with imprisonment within up to four years.
Tajikistan’s Criminal Code

Section XII. Crimes against information security

Chapter 28. Crimes against information security

Article 298. Unauthorized access to computer information

1. Unauthorized access to information in the computer system, network or on the machine carriers accompanied with breaking their protecting means is punished with fine from two hundred to four hundred minimum wages or freedom limitation within up to two years.

2. The same action entailed imprudently the deletion or blocking of information, failure of computer equipment or considerable damage are punished with fine from three hundred to five hundred minimum wages, refinery works within up to two years or imprisonment within the same term.

3. Actions provided by Parts 1 or 2, current article and entailed grave consequences through imprudence are punished with fine from four hundred to seven hundred minimum wages or imprisonment within up to three years.

Article 299. Modification of computer information

1. Change of information in the computer system, network or on the machine carriers and introduction of obviously false information (when there are no signs of stolen property) caused considerable damage or threatening with it are punished with fine from three hundred to five hundred minimum wages, refinery works within up to two years or imprisonment within the same term.

2. The same action connected with unauthorized access to computer system or network and entailed grave consequences through imprudence is punished with fine from five hundred to one thousand minimum wages or imprisonment within up to three years.

Article 300. Computer sabotage

1. Deletion, blocking, destruction of computer information or programs, damage of electronic computers, their systems, networks or machine carriers are punished with fine from two hundred to five hundred minimum wages, freedom limitation within up to two years or arrest within up to four months.

2. The same actions connected with unauthorized access to computer system or network and entailed grave consequences through imprudence are punished with fine from five hundred to one thousand minimum wages or imprisonment within up to three years.

Article 301. Illegal capture of computer information

1. Illegal copying or another unauthorized capture of computer information stored in the computer system, network or on the machine carriers and interception of data transmitted by means of computer connection are punished with fine from two hundred to five hundred minimum wages or imprisonment within up to two years.

2. Compulsion to deliver information stored in the computer system, network or on the machine carriers under threat of divulging discreditable data on à person or his relatives, using violence against a person or his relatives, as well as damaging or destroying property of a person, his relatives or other persons controlling this information is punished with freedom limitation within up to five years or imprisonment within the term from two to four years.

3. Actions provided by Parts 1 or 2, current article:

a) Connected with using brute force against a person or his relatives;

b) Performed by a group of persons in prior agreement;

c) Caused considerable damage to a victim;

d) Carried out to obtain information of special value are punished with imprisonment within the term from five to seven years.

4. Actions provided by Parts 1, 2, or 3, current article:

a) Performed again;

b) Fulfilled by an organized group;

c) Entailed imprudently human death or other grave consequences are punished with imprisonment within the term from seven to ten years.

Article 302. Production and marketing of special means designed to obtain unauthorized access to computer system or network

Production and marketing of special software and hardware designed to obtain unauthorized access to protected computer systems or networks are punished with fine from two hundred to five hundred minimum wages, freedom limitation within up to two years or arrest within the term from two to six months.

Article 303. Development, use and spread of detrimental software

1. Development of computer programs or introduction of changes into current ones to delete, block, modify or copy data stored in the computer system, network or on the machine carriers in an illegal way, as well as development of special virus programs, their use and spread of carriers with such software are punished with fine from three hundred to five hundred minimum wages or freedom limitation within up to two years.

2. The same action entailed grave consequences through imprudence is punished with fine from five hundred to one thousand minimum wages or imprisonment within up to three years.

Article 304. Violation of computer system or network operating rules

1. Violation of computer system or network operating rules on the part of a person having an access to this system or network entailed imprudently a deleting, blocking, modifying of computer information, disturbing of the computer work or caused another considerable damage is punished with fine up to three minimum wages or freedom limitation within up to two years.

2. The same action performed when operating computer system or network with information of especial value is punished with fine from three hundred to five hundred minimum wages, refinery works within up to two years or imprisonment within the same term.

3. Actions provided by Parts 1 or 2, current article and entailed grave consequences through imprudence are punished with fine from five hundred to one thousand minimum wages or imprisonment within up to three years.
Turkmenistan’s Criminal Code

Chapter 33. Computer information crimes

Article 333. Breach of algorithm, electronic computer software, databases and integral microcircuit topology legal protection

Production of other’s algorithms, electronic computer software, databases and integral microcircuit topologies under one’s name, as well as illegal reproduction or spread of those products are punished with fine from twenty to forty average monthly wages or refinery works within up to one year.

Article334. Unauthorized access to computer information

1. Unauthorized access to law protected computer information in the electronic computers, their systems, networks or on the machine carriers resulted in erasing, blocking, modifying, copying information or disturbing the work of electronic computers, their system or network is punished with fine from fifteen to thirty average monthly wages or refinery works within up to one years.

2. The same action performed by a group of persons in prior agreement or a person abusing his official position and having an access to electronic computers, their system or network is punished with fine from twenty-five to seventy-five average monthly wages or refinery works within up to two years.

Article 335. Production, use and spread of detrimental electronic computer software

1. Production of detrimental electronic computer programs or introduction of changes into current ones resulted in erasing, blocking, modifying, copying information or disturbing the work of electronic computers, their system or network, as well as use or spread of such programs are punished with fine from twenty-five to seventy-five average monthly wages, refinery works within up to two years or imprisonment up to one year.

2. The same actions entailed grave consequences through imprudence are punished with refinery works within up to two years or imprisonment within up to two years.
Uzbekistan’s Criminal Code

Section III. Economic crimes

Chapter 10. Theft of other’s property

Article 174. Violation of informatization rules

Violation of informatization rules that is unauthorized access to information networks or authorized access to such networks without taking necessary steps of protection, or illegal data acquisition from these networks, as well as illegal change, loss, withdrawal or deletion of information at the authorized work with information system inflicted considerable damage is punished with fine up to fifty minimum wages, refinery works within up to three years or arrest within up to three months.

Production of computer viruses or programs, their spread without appropriate sanctions to change data or programs stored in the computer systems or unauthorized access to the information system resulted in distorting, withdrawing, deleting information or interrupting the system operation are punished with fine from fifty to one hundred minimum...

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