Issues of Legislator Approach to Features of a Special Subject in Corpus Delicti of Abuse and Bribery in the Public Procurement

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The relevance of the study is associated with the existing problems in determining the criminal legal status of individual employees of the state (municipal) customer in view of the approach chosen by the legislator to the design of new corpus delicti of corruption (Articles 200. 4, 200. 5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in terms of describing the characteristics of a special subject. The objective of the study is to determine the features of the legislative structure of the novels of the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation on criminal liability for committing corruption-related crimes in the field of procurement to meet state and municipal needs (hereinafter referred to as the field of procurement), as well as to analyze the criminal legal status of individual employees of the state (municipal) customer. When preparing the article, the results of research of a wide range of Russian and foreign scientists were taken into account; in the article, in addition to research and legal information, sources of statistical information were used. To achieve the objective set in the study, the following methods were used: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, formal-legal, comparative-legal. The studycharacterizes the conceptual features of the legislative approach to describe the features of a special subject in the corpus delicti of abuse and bribery in the field of procurement. The disadvantages of the approach chosen by the legislator to describe the features of a special subject in the corpus delicti of abuse and bribery in the field of procurement have been identified: an unreasonably wide range of special perpetrators of abuse and receipt of the subject of bribery in the field of procurement; excessive formalization of norms in terms of describing the features of a special subject; unreasonable casuistry. The criminal legal status of contract managers, members of the procurement commission and persons accepting the supplied goods, work performed or services rendered was determined. It was concluded that inconsistency in the science of criminal law and possible problems of law enforcement in connection with the definition of the criminal legal status of the addressees of new criminal legal prohibitions are primarily due to the approach chosen by the legislator to reflect the features of a special subject of crimes provided for by Art. 200. 4 and 200. 5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

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Shamil Shurpaev

St. Petersburg Law Institute, branch, University of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation

Email: noreply@hse.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3080-1418
Associate Professor, Candidate of Sciences (Law), Candidate of Sciences (Economics)

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