The article is devoted to ensuring the financial security of the Russian state in connection with the implementation of the criminal policy. It underlines the need of decriminalization of the area of economic activity for the related legal relations protection. It defines the economic security threat to the country in the context of state strategic planning. It pays special attention to combating crime in the financial sphere. It covers changes in legislature in this sphere that result in expansion of legal practice of prosecution for crimes committed in such area, and that are aimed at preventing illegal financial transactions, as well as the organization of inter-agency cooperation in criminal cases of this category. Microfinance institutions in the form of firm-“ephemeral”, “pyramid schemes” and participating in illegal lending market, which is due to the ability to create imperfection of legal regulation of their activities are detected as a significant threat to stability of functioning of the financial and credit system. It indicates that the mechanism of criminal repression without other complex legislation is inadequate method to counter such crimes. It contains results of the analysis of prevention and detection of criminal acts of problems in this area and proposals for their resolution, including the normative character, and others.
criminal policy, financial system, financial-credit sphere, financial security, combating crime, criminal prosecution, the Central Bank of Russian Federation, State Corporation “Deposit Insurance Agency” criminal repression, microfinance institutions, “pyramid schemes”, firm-“phony”.
1. Kondrat E. N. Pravonarusheniya v finansovoy sfere Rossii. Ugrozy finansovoy bezopasnosti i puti protivodeystviya. M., 2014.
2. Lar´kov A. N. Ekonomicheskaya prestupnost´ i ugolovnyy zakon. Prestupnost´ i zakon. Tezisy konferentsii. M., 1996.
3. Nizovtsev A. V. Protivodeystvie finansovym piramidam. Zakonnost´. 2009. № 6.
4. Truntsevskiy Yu. V. Finansovaya bezopasnost´: ponyatie i vidy finansovykh prestupleniy. Vestnik Finansovogo universiteta. 2007. № 2.
5. Chernova V. V. Ekonomicheskaya bezopasnost´ Rossiyskoy Federatsii: protivodeystvie «finansovym piramidam». Sotsial´no-ekonomicheskie yavleniya i protsessy. 2009. № 1.