EXTORTION , by our right, consists in the assignation requirement (or the rights to property) under the threat of violence over the person, in conducting, under protection or in which personal property there is this property, or over its relatives, and also under the threat of announcement of dishonouring data on it or its relatives or destruction of their property. and property extortion is expressed in the requirement of transfer of things, money, monetary documents. Extortion of the right to property or fulfilment of any actions of property character consist in aspiration guilty to get material benefits at the expense of the victim (the requirement of registration of the will in favour of guilty, destructions of the debenture, manufacture of any work in favour of guilty etc.). as well as in a case with bribery, relations in business sphere in any way are not allocated.

The Western sources (' The New Encyclopaedia Britannica '), defining extortion as ' the illegal requirement of money or the property by means of intimidation ' and putting it in initial value in one number with bribery (as officials participate in both cases), specify, as here there is an expansion of treatment of concept by inclusion in it of private persons (V.4, the river 636). Depending on character of methods of extortion it compare with a robbery (it agree ' The Encyclopaedia Britanniса ' V. 8), it is characteristic for Great Britain and a part of states in the USA, or with blackmail. In the conditions of market economy on legislative definition of extortion pay special attention not to mix it with the auction. For example, officials of trade unions in the course of struggle for wages increase can threaten with strike that does not contradict the law, or the trading intermediary can threaten with the termination of purchases if the seller does not reduce the price. however these requirements only then become a crime when are used for reception of money or the property in private interests someone from participants of negotiations.