Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article “Contents of the main elements of the criminalistic characteristic of fraud” written by the group of authors is of great importance today as the new points of the Federal Act №207 of the Criminal Code of Russia which provide for the criminal proceedings for fraud in lending; while getting payments; while using bank cards; in business sphere; in the sphere of insurance, introduced on November 29, 2012, still need to be developed and lack the methods of the investigation of such crimes. Consequently, the methods of preparation, committing and concealing of a crime, track formation mechanism are not determined and analyzed upon the materials of the forensic and investigative activities. The authors of the article have attempted to study the cases of the mentioned crime types and determine the ways of preparation, committing and concealing of a crime and track formation mechanism of the above-mentioned types of crime

In the article the authors analyze the state of crime prevention in special legal literature, with analyses certain provisions of the criminal procedure code of Russia, allowing carrying out the preventive activities of the investigator during the investigation of criminal cases. In particular, the authors discuss the actual activities of the investigator in relation to the investigation of illicit trafficking in drugs. In the scientific article we have taken into account the views of famous scientists: R. S. Belkin, S. A. Solunskogo, A. N. Kolesnichenko, I. A. Vozgrin, I. I. Ivanov and others

The authors of the article consider legal organizational and tactical issues of operational investigative activities in the course of search. The authors compare some items and norms of Russian Constitution, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Federal Laws governing the operational-search activity, in particular search activity, some sources of information, such as confidential. In particular, the authors examine the legal basis of the internal affairs agencies in the fight against crime as a science-based system of legal norms contained in the laws and bylaws that create the legal preconditions, as well as the conditions and procedure for carrying out operative search actions, either directly regulating the legal organizational and tactical questions of application of operational investigative forces, means, methods and forms in the fight against crime. Thus, the authors believe that the search activities of the units engaged in operational investigative activities of the police, as an organizational and tactical form (or part of) the operational-search activity of law enforcement bodies as a whole, it has a single legal framework that operational search activity in general