Theft from an oil pipeline, an oil product pipeline, a gas pipeline, coupled with their damage - challenges of cumulative imputation

Introduction: the article analyses the challenge of criminal qualification of these acts related to the need for the cumulative imputation of two rules - Article 215.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and paragraph “b” of Part 3 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The system of criminal law to counter theft of gas and oil from pipelines constituting a major threat to society due to violations besides property damage, normal activity of public infrastructure can lead to probable leakage of hazardous chemical substance, their fire and explosion. Materials and Methods: in the course of the study, a complex of general scientific methods was used: materialistic dialectics, synthesis, comparative analysis, specific scientific comparative legal. The empirical basis of the study was convictions of courts of various regions of Russia that came into force made under Article 215.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and paragraph “b” of Part 3 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation...