"The bill ... is associated with toughening the consequences, if methanol becomes the basis of surrogate alcohol and this alcohol gets on the table of people, if as a result catastrophic consequences occur, then, excuse me, up to 15 years in prison," RIA Novosti quoted Kara -ooola.
He also noted that at the federal level it is necessary to resolve the issue of the availability of alcoholic beverages in stores during the holidays.
Earlier, State Duma deputy Sultan Khamzaev, head of the Sober Russia project, proposed to tighten responsibility for mass deaths caused by counterfeit alcohol.
The head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs Yaroslav Nilov, in an interview with RT, commented on the proposal to toughen responsibility for mass poisoning with counterfeit alcohol in Russia.