A person who has faced such a nuisance as phone threats knows how unpleasant it is. The subscriber may receive persistent offers to "figure it out", outright blackmail, intimidation with compromising evidence and even death threats. There is a special article for such actions in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, but it is often difficult to detect a telephone intruder.
As a rule, those who call very rarely pursue a real goal and do not dare to carry out what they are obsessively and persistently warned about by phone. Their main and main task is to psychologically exhaust the “enemy”, make him weak-willed and obedient, so that later enjoy the achieved effect. And it is often very visual - the intimidated person feels uncomfortable, his business is worse and often he is losing his health. In legal terms, there are actions that are detrimental to the health, and even the life of a person. Punishments for such acts are provided for in Art. 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Threats of murder or grievous bodily harm will be punished by up to 240 hours of compulsory labor or from 2 to 5 years of restriction of liberty.
It is difficult to prove, but it is possible
In practice, proving the guilt of a threatening person over the phone is quite difficult. The first thing that needs to be done in such a situation is to apply to the police station on duty and make sure that it is registered there by giving you the appropriate coupon.
In order for investigators to be provided with factual material, telephone threats must be recorded on a dictaphone. You will have to do this yourself, because only a court can make a decision on the operative wiretapping of the phone, and this is troublesome and time may be lost.
If the caller's voice with threats sounds familiar or there is any guesswork about the reasons and origin of the phone calls and their organizers, this should also be stated in your statement to the police. It is necessary to find as many grounds as possible so that the investigating authorities can initiate a criminal case.
It will not be superfluous to attach a certificate from the district doctor about the deterioration of health due to constant stress. It happens that after such telephone threats, a person has to call an ambulance.
A printout of calls from a mobile operator, along with a certificate from an ambulance station, is a good help to the investigation and is not another proof of the severity of the actions of telephone hooligans. The same can be confirmed by witnesses of telephone threats: household members, neighbors, colleagues.
The rest is up to the investigators. They are obliged to interview suspects, take the necessary measures and, ideally, bring the case to court. But, judging by the procedural practice and the opinion of lawyers, cases of telephone threats rarely reach the court. Often they are completed even during the pre-trial investigation. As a rule, the plaintiff does not have the patience, nerves and time to bring the started case to the end. Although it is not worth letting go of the tricks of the telephone hooligans on the brakes, since impunity is new crimes in the future.
For a telephone bomb - 10 years in prison
Law enforcement agencies work extremely quickly in cases of telephone threats about allegedly planted bombs in schools, shops and other public places. As well as telephone messages about impending terrorist attacks, mass accidents, disasters, etc. Modern high-tech equipment of special services allows in a short time to determine the location of a telephone terrorist, irrefutably prove his involvement in the call. The punishment for such telephone threats is severe - up to 10 years in prison and a large fine.
