In this article, the author examined some aspects of the responsibility for extortion in some foreign countries. Among the crimes, the author notes, the crime of extortion differs from both widely cited crimes in that it causes the victim not only material, but also significant moral damage. In addition, when committing this crime, the victim does not report it to law enforcement agencies even because she is intimidated by the use of violence against herself or her loved ones, causing property damage or disclosing information that should be kept secret for the victim. This increases the latency of this type of crime and encourages the offender to commit other crimes in the future. To clarify the concept of "close person" in the disposition of Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan from the point of view of the development of the criminal legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the context of the analysis of the criminal law norms of certain foreign countries for which the author defines responsibility for the crime of extortion in the eighth section, also, the responsibility for extortion is justified by the need to establish a new revision of the dispositions of the established norm.