Legal qualification of the activity of financial pyramids in criminal law
The article gives a systematic interpretation of a term “financial pyramid”, explores some methods and forms of struggle against pyramid schemes in foreign countries, problems of qualification of pyramid schemes in the Russian Federation, the practical significance of changes in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Today, in Russia, the question of qualification of financial pyramids is not well-regulated. That is why the detailed research of concept, signs and types of financial pyramids is needed. The research is conducted with an aim of improvement legislative (including criminal legal, administrative legal and civil legal) and another normative providing of struggle against fraud, satisfying to the conditions of social and economic situation. This research helps in development of new decisions of row of important problems for a criminal law, such as: scientific ground of necessity of perfection of criminal legal struggle against fraud in recognition of the specific character of financial pyramids; descriptions of the phenomenon of fraud in the form of creation financial pyramids in Russia; classifications of factors of this type of fraud. Creation and guidance a financial pyramid are the specific types of fraud, where a person or a cooperative association get financial assets from its participants, and depositors get a profit by the redistribution of assets of other persons. For effective administration of justice, prevention of fraud in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation bringing of amendments, contemplating criminal responsibility directly for organisation and managing a financial pyramid, is needed.