Criminal responsibility for exerting unlawful influence on the result of an official sporting event or a spectacular commercial competition
Crimes against sports tend to increase and have high latency, which is associated with commercialization, high profitability of sports competitions and events. The authors of the article argue that the responsibility for exerting unlawful influence on the result of a sports event should be limited exclusively to the field of professional sports for the following reasons: only encroachments in the field of professional sports harm the economic relations protected by criminal law, which include crimes in the field of sports; complies with international standards in the field of encroachment on sports relations.