Practical recommendations for improving the effectiveness of operational investigative activities aimed at detecting corruption-related crimes in the implementation of national projects

The fight against criminal encroachments related to the embezzlement of budget funds allocated to finance national projects is currently one of the priorities of the operational and official activities of the internal affairs bodies. In this connection, the object of the study is the state of crime in the field of implementation of national projects, which is studied through the prism of a territorial feature, an object of criminal law protection and a subject of crime detection. The subject of the study is the identification of problematic issues and the development of new approaches to improving the effectiveness of operational investigative activities aimed at detecting crimes in the implementation of national projects. The analysis of published scientific papers allowed us to conclude that insufficient attention is paid to the problem of organizing an operational search, while it is at the stage of initiating an operational check that employees experience difficulties.  To achieve their goals and objectives, the authors used methods of formal logic, such as induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis, comparison, statistical methods, concrete historical and formal legal methods. The authors of the article calculated the criminological burden of crimes related to the implementation of national projects in the context of federal districts and concluded about the territorial heterogeneity of this type of crime. A group of corruption-related crimes in the implementation of national projects was singled out separately, the structure of crimes in this group indicates problems in detecting crimes under Articles 285, 286 and 292 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, their share in the total number of corruption-related crimes is less than 6%. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the development of a universal algorithm for the implementation of an operational search to identify crimes provided for in Articles 285, 286 and 292 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which are committed during construction and installation works. The universal nature of the algorithm lies in the absence of reference to the specifics of a specific national project. The proposed algorithm is adapted to different stages of the development of federal budget funds: the stage of competitive procedures and the stage of execution of the municipal contract.

national project, budgetary funds, criminality, detection of crime, police, corruption, operational search activity, municipal contract, operational search, operational examination