Modern aspects of qualifying fraudulent actions: issues of legal and law enforcement techniques

Subject of research: provisions of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation providing for liability for fraudulent acts in various spheres of economic activity, judicial practice materials related to the application of criminal law provisions formulated in Articles 159.1-159.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as doctrinal sources on the topic of the study. Purpose of research: to establish criteria for fraudulent acts committed in the field of lending, when receiving payments, using electronic means of payment, in the field of insurance, and in the field of computer information. Research methods: a dialectical approach – when considering the development and improvement of norms aimed at combating fraudulent manifestations, legislative and textual methods and techniques for analyzing the substantive and structural features of criminal law norms on fraud, as well as a systems method – when considering the practice of applying Article. Subparagraph "g" of Part 3 of Articles 158, 159, 159.1-159.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Objects of research: the object of this study is criminal acts committed in traditional and non-traditional areas of fraudulent activity. Research findings: 1) judicial and investigative practice shows that objective criteria for differentiating various types of fraud are of decisive importance in classifying the act; 2) to improve the application of the provisions of Articles 1592 and 1595 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to formulate a legislative definition of the concept of "social payment" and introduce specific clarifications to the definition of the concept of computer information contained in the note to Article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.