On the advisability of returning confiscation of property as a form of punishment for bribery

The article considers the current problem of the effectiveness of punishments imposed for bribery. The issue of the advisability of returning property confiscation to the punishment system and appointing it as an additional type of punishment for committing the said crime is analyzed. Based on the analysis of the positions of a number of authors whose works were devoted to the topic chosen for study, and a historical review of changes in liability for bribery, the problem of the lack of sanctions in the norms prohibiting bribery, expressed in the absence of such a type of punishment as property confiscation, is formulated. A measure capable of solving the problematic situation can be an adjustment of the list of punishments and a number of articles of the General Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the change of which is necessary for the correct application of the law on liability for bribery, as well as the addition of sanctions to the norms of Art. 290 of the said codified law with property confiscation as an additional type of punishment, aggravating the main ones already contained in the article.