Russian Journal of Economics and Law (Dec 2016)

ACTIVITY OF THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE BODIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PROSECUTION OF PHYSICAL AND JURIDICAL PERSONS FOR CORRUPTION LAW BREACHES

  • S. K. Iliy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21202/1993-047X.10.2016.4.27-44
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
pp. 27 – 44

Abstract

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Objective: to analyze the problems of identifying and impleading the persons guilty of corruptive administrative offenses and the role of theProsecutor’s Office in this activity.Methods: formal logical method, systemic method, comparative legal, statistical.Results: the author proposes to include a special chapter in the Russian Administrative Code on corruptive administrative offences, and to provide for the possibility of exemption from administrative liability of legal persons, who actively contributed to the disclosure and (or) investigation of crime, or when there has been extortion of bribes from officials, or if a legal person after the crime voluntary informed on bribery to the body entitled to institute criminal proceedings. In the process of research, the author proposed a new wording of Article 19.28 of the Russian Administrative Code, providing for liability of not only legal entities but also individuals, engaged in entrepreneurial activities without forming a legal entity.Scientific novelty: the existing problems of impleading for committing corruptive administrative offences are identified and classified, the ways of their solution are proposed.Practical significance: the research results can be used in the practical work of prosecutors, as well as in the development of proposals on improvement of the Russian Code of Administrative Offences.

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