ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF ENSURING THE LEGALITY OF OPERATIONAL-INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES TO COMBAT ECONOMIC AND CORRUPTION CRIMES
Background: the change in basic legal relations in society during the transition to a market economy in Russia has led to the emergence of new threats to the objects of eco nomic security and required a radical restructuring of law enforcement to identify, prevent, suppress and solve crimes. Objective: to identify the problems of ensuring the legality of operational-investigative activities carried out to combat economic and corruption crimes in the conditions of the formation of the market relations and to suggest ways to resolve them. Methodology: comparative legal analysis of Russian and foreign law enforcement systems and scientific approaches in determining the powers of a prosecutor, generalization of the practice of prosecutorial supervision and investigative activities, statistical analysis of crime in the economic sphere. Results: the theoretical and legal problems of identification and elimination of offenses committed in the implementation of operational investigative activities are defined, proposals for their resolution are formulated. Conclusions: it is necessary to revise the existing model of ensuring the legality of investigative activities by strengthening the role of the Prosecutor's office.