Open AccessON PRESSING ISSUES OF CRIMINAL LEGAL PROTECTION OF CREDITORS AT THE STAGE OF EXECUTION OF JUDICIAL ACTS ON THE COLLECTION OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
Author(s) -
K.Y. Sasykin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rossijsko-aziatskij pravovoj žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2687-010X
DOI - 10.14258/ralj(2021)3.5
Subject(s) - accounts payable , legislation , creditor , criminal code , norm (philosophy) , criminal liability , law , political science , liability , criminal procedure , criminal law , business , law and economics , payment , sociology , debt , finance
In the article, the author examines the problem of criminal legal protection of creditors’ rights fromcrimes associated with malicious evasion by debtors from paying off accounts payable, for the commissionof which liability is provided under Article 177 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The author emphasizes that the norm of the article was introduced in 1996 together with the adoptionof the code and the disposition did not undergo changes over the next twenty-five years, remaininginsufficiently regulated. It is indicated with reference to judicial practice on the problem of the objective sideof the corpus delicti of this crime, which contains ambiguous evaluative signs.The author, based on the analysis of the article of the considered norm and a number of doctrinal pointsof view, concluded that the norm is subject to change with the “removal” of the controversial terminologyfrom the disposition. The author proposes a revision of the norm and, as an example, provides a similarprovision on liability from the criminal legislation of the Republic of Belarus.Also, based on the analysis of articles 144–145 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federationand taking into account the practice and doctrinal points of view, attention is focused on the need, in additionto substantive changes, changes and procedural norms of domestic legislation, namely, on the need totransform the stage existing in the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation initiation of a criminalcase as hindering the timely detection and investigation of this type of crime.