Komakhin B.N. Investigation and search operations as the main activity in detecting corruption crimes

Abstract: The article focuses on the problems of legal and organizational measures of combating corruption by means of investigation and search activities. The article reveals the importance of investigation and search operations for the detection of corruption crimes at the present stage of development of our society. The author formulates the main directions of prevention of this phenomenon, paying particular attention to the operational experiment in the exposing of corrupt officials, describes the methods of detection of corruption crimes. The article defines the acts of corruption.The methodological basis for the article comprises the recent achievements of epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional legal methods (formal logical), and the methods used in specific sociological studies (statistical, expert evaluation, etc.).The author concludes that at present, in order to prevent corruption, it is necessary to improve the forms and methods of legal impact on those spheres of interaction of business and authorities in which the risk of corruption is significant. The main contribution of the author is the conclusion about the need for the development of legal regulation of investigation and search activity of the police in the sphere of combating corruption. The novelty of the article lies in the proposals for the development of forms and methods of public regulation of combating corruption and the creation of legal and institutional guarantees of investigation and search activity in the sphere of combating corruption.

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