Any Chinese gadgets with built-in video camera (pens, watches, key chains) equate to a "special technical means intended for secret information gathering" in Russia. In many countries, these devices are sold in the shops of toys, we do for them, you can go to jail.
Muscovite Alexei Sokolov was released on December 24, 2016, after spent in pre-trial detention for four months.
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Alex ordered on Aliexpress keychain with a video camera in order to use it as a DVR on his motorcycle. But the video quality was so poor that the use Keychain for this purpose did not work and then Alex had the misfortune to put the keychain on Avito for 1500 rubles. That's classified.
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The buyers were the police who carried out operational-search activities "test purchases".
Article 138.1 of the Criminal Code provides for a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles, forced labor or restriction of freedom for up to three years or imprisonment for up to four years for trafficking (acquisition, storage or sale without a license), "special technical devices for secret information. " The annex to the Government Decision №214 from March 10, 2000 is the "List of species of special technical devices for secret information, import and export of which is subject to licensing, "whereby a special technical device should have at least one of following features: being "camouflaged under household items" have lens type Pinhole, working in low light, or from the remote management. Thus, the "special technical means" can be called even consumer video camera (e.g., GoPro operated by remote control) or Smart-clock camera (disguised clock lens pinhole).
In 2013, under article 138.1 152 persons were convicted in 2014 - 212, in 2015 - 259. In most cases the perpetrator "unmasked" by the "control purchase".
Most sentences in this article have been fined or suspended sentences.
December 21, 2016 a meeting of the Basmanny Court, which Aleksei Sokolov was sentenced to four months in prison on charges of Chinese fob with DVR function. Taking into account the time spent in prison, he was released three days later after the trial.
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