Abstract
The article raises the problem of the property confiscation absence as an additional measure of punishment in modern Russian criminal legislation. The authors analyze the reasons for excluding property confiscation from the types of criminal punishment in 2003, reveal the difference between property confiscation as a punishment and property confiscation as a measure of criminal law, and provide examples of the property confiscation practice. The article examines the issues of ensuring the compliance of sanctions with the nature and degree of social danger of the crime, with the tasks of preventing the crimes under consideration, and with the justice principles implementation. The article compares the criminal legislation of the Soviet period and modern Russian legislation on liability for corruption crimes. It is proposed that property confiscation must be included in the Criminal Code of Russia as an additional measure of punishment for grave and especially grave crimes, first of all, corruption related crimes. It is also proposed to abandon the establishment of a fine as the main punishment in sanctions for the most dangerous crimes of a corruption nature, including such ones as taking a bribe. According to the authors` opinion the main punishment for such crimes should be imprisonment.
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