scholarly journals Remote Participation of the Accused (Suspect) at the Preliminary Investigation Stage as an Alternative to the Criminal Proceedings Stay

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
O. G. Bondartseva
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Remote Participation

The participation of the accused at the stage of preliminary investigation presupposes the possibility of exercising his right to defense. However, in cases of being in a territory significantly remote from the location of the preliminary investigation body, including outside Russia, the impossibility of personal participation in investigative and other procedural actions, one of the ways of interaction between the accused and law enforcement agencies may be remote participation through electronic interaction systems, and video conferencing. Draft laws on the amendment into the RF Criminal Procedure Code on conducting investigative actions through video-conference communication were pending at the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in 2015 and 2018, but were not finalized and adopted. The provisions of the Second Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, providing for the simplification and acceleration of the procedure for providing mutual legal assistance in terms of the possibility of interrogating the accused (suspect) via videoconference, Russia, upon ratification of the protocol in 2019, did not allow to apply. In criminal cases of an economic nature, which reverberate in society and raise many questions about the activities of law enforcement agencies, large entrepreneurs often leave Russia, unable to remotely take part in investigative actions, present evidence in their defense, and get acquainted with procedural decisions in a criminal case. This leads to an increase in the number of suspended criminal cases, according to art. 208, part 1, clauses 1-3 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. In 2019, the total number of economic criminal cases increased by 37% compared to 2018, while the number of suspended criminal cases under Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation increased by 15.83%, under Art. 159.1-159.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation — by 86.93%. The relevance of the topic is also due to the coronavirus pandemic, which limited the freedom of movement of Russian citizens both within the country and abroad. In this regard, the use of video-conferencing in the investigation of criminal cases is becoming a vital necessity, the imperative of the times.

Specifics of some anti-corruption measures in Russia within the framework of public and state security

2020 ◽  
pp. 541-547
Author(s):  
Tatyana Plotnikova ◽  
Andrey Paramonov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Presumption Of Innocence ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
State Security ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
Illegal Acts ◽  
The Russian Federation

In the current difficult conditions for the economy of our state, corruption crimes represent a higher level of danger. It is necessary to reform anti-corruption activities in order to increase its effectiveness. One of the radical measures in the field of anti-corruption will be the abolition of the presumption of innocence for corrupt illegal acts. The presumption of inno-cence is a fundamental and irremovable principle of criminal law, which is enshrined in article 14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation. Violation of this principle is impossible for criminal proceedings, but modern circumstances require timely, prompt, and sometimes radical so-lutions. It is worth not to neglect the measures of “insuring” on the part of law enforcement agencies, since otherwise it will increase the share of cor-ruption crimes in law enforcement agencies. The content of paragraph 4 of article 14 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation is man-datory even if the presumption of innocence for corruption crimes is can-celed: “A conviction cannot be based on assumptions”. At the same time, the principle of differentiation of punishment will be implemented by assigning the term of imprisonment from the minimum to the maximum, depending on the severity of the illegal act.

FORMS AND METHODS OF PARTICIPATION OF PRIVATE SECURITY GUARDS AND VOLUNTARY PEOPLE'S PATROL IN RESPONSE TO ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING OF WEAPONS

2018 ◽  
pp. 78-95
Author(s):  
Denis Mikhaylovich Denisov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Russian Federation

In this study, the issues of the state of counteraction of law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation to illegal trafficking in weapons, explosives and ammunition at the present stage are considered. Given the meetings directions of heads of divisions of law-enforcement agencies, Federal National Guard Troops Service, Federal Security Service, Public Prosecution Office, Security Council of the Russian Federation on the specified question. Noted the importance of prevention in this area of work, based on the past redundancy of personnel of the MIA of Russia and increasing the role of the public (voluntary people's patrol, private security company) in security issues. Among other things, were touched upon the issues of the negative impact of the global Internet network on the spread of illegal methods of manufacturing of weapons, ammunition and explosives. Presented the statistical data on detection and suppression of crimes under articles 222–226 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The purposes, causes and conditions of illegal arms trafficking, as well as the composition of criminal acts related to this type of illegal acts are considered, the gaps in the current legislation are pointed out. Examples of control preventive measures and their results are given. Particular attention is paid to the forms and methods of participation of private security guards and members of voluntary people's patrol in the prevention, prevention and suppression of the spread of illegal weapons, ammunition and explosives, as well as reducing the risk of accidents, crimes related to the use of socially dangerous objects and substances.

scholarly journals Some Aspects of Prevention and Investigation of Damage to the Railway Telecommunications Facilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-365
Author(s):  
Igor Ozerov ◽  
Olga Katayeva ◽  
Denis Rudov ◽  
Elena Cherkasova ◽  
Anastasia Volchenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
Telecommunications Infrastructure ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law

The authors study the issues of preventing the damage to the railway telecommunications infrastructure by analyzing the current criminal procedure legislation, criminal legislation and criminalistics views on the methods and means of counteracting crimes under Art. 215.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. They present the algorithm of actions of the law enforcement employees and the specialists servicing the railway facilities when such offences take place. The authors analyze the procedural investigative activities regarding the employees of the organizations that service the railway infrastructure. The investigation of crimes under Art. 215.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation requires expert knowledge in the sphere of servicing railway transport. The authors specifically examine some evidence acquired during the preliminary investigation and the methodology of some investigative actions (interrogation of witnesses, representatives of the aggrieved party, inspection of the crime scene). They analyze the procedure of evaluating the damage inflicted on sophisticated telecommunication facilities. They also single out a number of special characteristics of the investigative methodology for crimes under Art. 215.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation when specialists in servicing complex telecommunications facilities are called to give testimony. It is noted that countries bordering on the Russian Federation and members of the Customs Union are gradually harmonizing their criminal and criminal procedure legislation with the legislation of the Russian Federation. The paper states that today the Russian Federation has sufficient legislative base to form a system of preventing crimes against railway telecommunications infrastructure. In conclusion the authors present a number of measures to counteract crimes under Art. 215.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, offer their brief description and the recommendations for using them. They stress the necessity of cooperation between the owners of the railway facilities, the law enforcement bodies and the mass media.

scholarly journals Investigator’s covert-nature procedural activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 04011
Author(s):  
Marina Sergeevna Kolosovich ◽  
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Popova ◽  
Anna Fedorovna Zotova ◽  
Maria Mikhailovna Bondar ◽  
Olga Sergeevna Shamshina
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Criminal Intelligence ◽  
The Russian Federation

Over the years, most of the Russian processualists denied the investigator’s right to engage in actions of covert nature and deemed it impossible to integrate the norms of criminal intelligence legislation in the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation adopted on 18.12.2001 No. 174-FZ, rightly referring to the impossibility to vest a single duty-bearer engaged in a preliminary investigation with unprecedented powers. Meanwhile, the latest decades have been marked by active legislative activity in many countries, which in fact has turned covert criminal intelligence and surveillance into a procedural activity. These innovations became specific of a number of countries regardless of their legal system belonging to the Romano-Germanic or Anglo-Saxon legal system, testifying to more profound roots of the problem. The study is also relevant in terms of dissatisfaction, expressed by the Russian law-enforcement authorities, with the crime solvency rate and with the interaction of criminal intelligence detectives and internal affairs investigators. The goal of the study is to identify the procedural provisions governing the investigator’s covert-nature activities and related law enforcement problems. The methodological framework of the research comprises general and particular methods of scientific knowledge: dialectical, systemic, deductive, inductive; synthesis, analysis; comparative legal analysis, statistical and other methods. Results and novelty: it was concluded that the Code of Criminal Procedure provides for the regulation of the investigator’s confidential-nature activities inherent in covert criminal intelligence and surveillance and requiring more detailed elaboration, as concerns the issues of securing the rights of partakers of the said activity; the authors express doubt regarding the justification of the legislator’s differentiation of covert activities under criminal cases into covert investigative actions (Art. 185, 186, 186.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure) and covert operational and investigative operations that are in fact identical to the former (Art. 6, Cl. 9-11 of the Russian Federation Federal Law No. 144-FZ as of 12.08.1995 “On criminal intelligence and surveillance”.

scholarly journals Problems of Protecting the Rights of a Private Prosecutor in Defamation Cases

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-660
Author(s):  
Natalya Artebyakina ◽  
Tatyana Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
False Information ◽  
Justices Of The Peace ◽  
The Russian Federation

The growing complexity of public relations creates a need for the criminalization of some acts and de-criminalization of others. Defamation is one of the offenses affected by this trend. Some time after its de-criminalization, the crime of defamation was brought back to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. However, there is no actual legal mechanism in Russia that victims of defamation could use to fully protect their rights. The authors point out a trend for acquittals in criminal proceedings initiated after the complaints of private prosecutors when they concern deliberately false information that besmirches the honor and dignity of other people and harms their reputation, when these complaints are filed with the governmental, including the law enforcement, authorities. They present their research of court statistical data regarding cases heard by Justices of the Peace under Part 1, Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation between 2014 and the first half of 2018. The authors have analyzed the practices of Justices of the Peace in Ulyanovsk Region on criminal cases initiated under Part 1, Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. They use the examples of specific criminal cases to prove that judges use clauses of Art. 33 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Art. 6 of the Federal Law «On the Procedure of Handling Applications of Citizens of the Russian Federation» when deciding cases based on Part 1, Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and protect the right of citizens to appeal to the governmental (including law enforcement) authorities; they point out that an appeal to governmental or local governance cannot be viewed as spreading deliberately false information. In this case, private prosecutors have no opportunity to protect their rights even if it is proven that the information is deliberately false, and they also have to bear additional expenses connected with the recovery of procedural costs. Besides, the research includes a comparative legal analysis of legislation on defamation in a number of foreign countries (the USA, China, the UAE and others) as well as the historical-legal analysis of the development of Russian legislation on liability for defamation.

ADDITIONAL GUARANTEES OF DEFENSE OF RIGHTS AND LEGITIMATE INTERESTS OF JUVENILE SUSPECTS, ACCUSED ON THE STAGE OF THE PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 176-184
Author(s):  
I. I. Kartashov ◽  
M. A. Kamyshnikova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Juvenile Suspects

The article analyzes the provisions of the criminal procedure law to implement supplementary guaran-tees to defend the rights and legitimate interests of juvenile suspects, accused on the stage of preliminary inves-tigation. Based on the analysis of law enforcement practice, the authors propose changes to certain provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation

scholarly journals Legislator’s error: types, reasons, ways of correction

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Rarog
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Political System ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Special Part ◽  
General Part ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Made In

The paper raises the question of the inevitability not only of judicial (in specific criminal cases) errors, but also of law enforcement errors (the practice of incorrect application of the criminal law established spontaneously or at the direction of higher judicial authorities), as well as legislative errors of political, system or technical nature. Considering the specific law-making mistakes made in the norms of the General Part and in each of the structural elements of many of the norms of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the author notes the appreciable work of the legislator to eliminate errors with satisfaction. At the same time, the paper provides specific examples of errors that are repeatedly noted in the special literature, still yet to be corrected, and suggests ways to correct them, in particular, amending the Regulations of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation regarding the procedure for discussing bills.

scholarly journals The State of Legality in the Credit and Banking Industry of the Russian Economy

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-229
Author(s):  
S V Bazhanov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Groups

This article is devoted to the state of legality in the credit and banking industry of the Russian economy. Despite the attention paid to its improvement, the situation in it remains unfavorable, the number of crimes committed are significant. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, since 2015, more than 70,000 reports of criminal encroachments related to banking have been received annually by law enforcement agencies. As a result of their consideration, only 36.7 thousand criminal cases were initiated in the expired 2016. The widespread use of the facts of embezzlement of bank money by banks and their customers. Crimes of this category in 2015-2016 were found in most regions of the country. For their commission, organized criminal groups were often created, in the unlawful schemes of which «one-day firms» were involved. In order to facilitate the implementation of criminal intentions, the information constituting bank secrecy was illegally divulged, and financial accounting and reporting documents were falsified. Illegal actions of bank employees often led to a revocation of the credit organization’s license and its subsequent bankruptcy. Negative influence on the state of legality in the sphere in question is rendered by unlawful banking activity and illegal withdrawal of funds abroad. The effectiveness of disclosure of related crimes remains low. According to information provided by the prosecutors of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, in 2016 year, according to the results of the preliminary investigation and inquiry, only 30.2 thousand criminal cases of the analyzed category were sent to the court (12.6%).

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF THE LEGAL REGULATION OF EVIDENCE COLLECTION IN CRIMINAL CASES BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Aleksandr R. Akhmadullin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Mutual Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Evidence Collection ◽  
The Russian Federation

This article deals with the problems of legal regulation of the process of collecting evidence in criminal cases within the framework of mutual legal assistance, based on a systematic analysis of international legal acts and legislation, a conclusion is made about the inconsistency of legal norms regulating the collection of evidence outside the territory of the Russian Federation. In some cases, they are insufficient, which negatively affects the quality and efficiency of the preliminary investigation. Suggestions are made to eliminate inconsistencies in legal norms.

scholarly journals On exemption from criminal liability for unlawful restriction of competition (the Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ol'ga Evgen'evna Derevyagina
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation

The subject of this research is the notes to the Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Article 14.32 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses; foreign antimonopoly legislation on exemption and mitigation of liability for cartels; decisions of the plenums of higher judicial instances of the Russian Federation regarding the grounds and procedure for exemption from liability for cartel agreements; draft of the federal law on introducing amendments to the Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and antimonopoly practice on cartels. The article aims to examine the grounds for exemption from criminal liability for cartel agreements, including in comparative-legal and interdisciplinary aspects. The novelty of this research consists in establishing extension of the grounds for exemption from liability in the Russian legislation to all cartel participants (unlike foreign legislation, according to which the cartel facilitator is not exempt from liability). This article is firs to provide interpretation to scantily studied questions of the procedure for realization of the conditions of exemption from criminal liability: the instance, when the cartel participant is still able to declare the restriction of competition to law enforcement agencies, and other measures of reparation of the inflicted damage. The author proposes a method for unification of the the grounds for exemption from liability stipulated by the Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Article 14.32 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses. The acquired results can be applied in the activity of law enforcement agencies.

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