The financial and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic provokes not only unconventional situations in society, but also actively affects the state of economic crime. The criminal situation in the oil and gas complex is directly related to the current state of the economy and digitalization of its processes, a set of conditions and factors responsible for its stability, sustainability and progressiveness of the digital economy. It is not enough to assess the economic criminality of the oil and gas complex only by the number of revealed crimes; therefore, it is necessary to implement an effective economic concept of society and economic security of a particular enterprise, legal entity and individual, which will allow to change the entire cause-and-factor complex causing economic criminality. The article reveals the specific features of the oil and gas complex that contribute to the commission of economic crimes. A classification of factors contributing to the commission of economic crimes is proposed, in which the socio-economic and specific factors of the oil and gas industry are consistently considered, and their characteristics with the growth of economic crimes are given. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the development of the model of preventive measures to ensure economic security at macro-, meso– and micro levels of market economy in the conditions of digitalization. The cause-and-factor complex of economic crimes is considered taking into account the following blocks: political and legal, socio-economic, sectoral, organizational and technological, which are interconnected and actively affect the level of economic crimes. As a result, the main measures to counteract economic crimes are proposed, taking into account the purposeful influence of society, specific enterprise, legal entity and individual on the causes and conditions of ensuring economic security of the state.