The Tactics Features for the Commission of Judicial Economic Examinations in Investigating Crimes Related to Financial and Economic Activities of the Subjects of Housing and Communal Services

Abstract

Introduction: crimes in the sphere of housing and communal services pose a serious social danger and are of acute social nature, as they affect the interests of the state and society. Crimes in this economy sector lead to the violations of the legal property rights of tens of thousands of citizens, their social and economic security. The facts of criminal activity in the sphere of housing and communal services, the insufficiently rapid response of the law enforcement agencies to them, delay or protraction in the investigation of these facts, form the prerequisites and contribute to the protest activity of the population which destabilizes the socio-political situation. In this regard, the effective counteraction of the considered category of illegal acts requires prompt and full investigation of all facts of the criminal activity committed in the sphere of housing and communal services in order to ensure the inevitability of punishment for committing them and compensation for the material damage. The investigation of crimes of the specified category, as a rule, is impossible without carrying out various judicial economic examinations whose commission, performance and conclusions assessment in many respects predetermine the prospects for successful resolution of the criminal case in court. In this regard, the authors set a goal to reveal the tactical features of the commission of such an important for the investigation of most crimes committed in the field of housing and communal services, investigative action as a judicial economic examination. Methods: the methodological framework for this study is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the main are the methods of information processing and logical analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction and generalization. Results: the author ’s content of the tactical features of commissioning a judicial economic examination on the facts of cr imes connected with financial and economic activities of the subjects of housing and communal services based on the judicial and investigative practice gives the chance to use them in the practical activities of the authorized officials of the law enforcement agencies during the identification and investigation of the above-mentioned facts. Conclusions: as a result of the study, the authors have determined the tactical features of the commission of a judicial economic examination on the facts of crimes related to financial and economic activities of the subjects of housing and communal services in order to inform law students, the teaching staff of law schools, as well as practitioners in order to better understand the features of the investigation of crimes, connected with the financial and economic activities of the subjects of housing and communal services.