Responsibility for Computer Crimes Provided by CIS and Baltic countries Criminal Law
Date: October 15, 2003Source: Computer Crime Research Center
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... punished with fine from fifty to one hundred minimum wages, arrest within the term from three to six months or imprisonment within up to three years with denial of particular privileges.
Estonia’s Criminal Code
Computer information crimes
Article 268. Computer Fraud
Acquisition of other’s property or deriving of benefits through introduction of computer programs or data, as well as their modification, deletion, blocking or another kind of interference with the procedure of processing information that influences its results and causes direct property or another damage to a person are punished with fine, arrest or imprisonment within the term from one to six years.
Article 269. Deletion of computer information or software
1. Illegal deletion, damage, violation or blocking of computer information or software are punished with fine or arrest.
2. The same actions:
a) Caused a great property loss;
b) Directed against main State registers;
c) Performed by a group of persons in prior agreement are punished with arrest or imprisonment within up to two years.
Article 270. Computer sabotage
1. Introduction of data or programs, their modification, deletion or blocking to create disturbance interferences in the work of computer or telecommunication system are punished with fine, arrest or imprisonment within up to two years.
2. The same actions:
a) Inflicted great property loss;
b) Directed at creating disturbance interferences in the work of main State registers are punished with imprisonment up to four years.
Article 271. Illegal use of computers, their systems or networks
1. Illegal use of computers, their systems or networks through elimination of their protecting means (codes, passwords and so on) is punished with fine or arrest.
2. The same action:
a) Committed again;
b) Inflicted considerable damage;
c) Performed by using computers, their systems or networks containing information of State secret or official application is punished with fine, arrest or imprisonment within up to two years.
Article 272. Illegal interruption or blocking of the computer system connection
Illegal interruption or blocking of computer system connection with the help of technical means are punished with fine, arrest or imprisonment within up to two years.
Article 273. Obvious spread of computer viruses
1. Obvious spread of computer viruses is punished with fine.
2. The same action performed again, caused considerable damage, directed against State computer system or a network of universal application is punished with fine, arrest or imprisonment within the term from one to four years.
Article 274. Transfer of protecting codes
1. Transfer of protecting codes for computers, their systems or networks is punished with fine or arrest.
2. The same crime if transferred protecting codes allow penetrating into computers or data banks with personal information of delicate character, State secret or official application is punished with arrest or imprisonment within up to two years.
3. The same action carried out to derive benefits or caused considerable damage is punished with arrest or imprisonment within up to four years.
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