TRANSFORMATIONS OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS IN THE ASPECT OF PROTECTING ENTREPRENEURS AGAINST ILLEGAL EXCITATION OF CRIMINAL CASES
The article is devoted to the issue of transforming criminal proceedings in connection with the creation of new organizational and legal mechanisms to exclude the possibility of using criminal prosecution as a tool to put pressure on entrepreneurial structures. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of legislation and the problems associated with the illegal initiation of criminal cases against entrepreneurs. The methodological basis of this study is a set ofmethods of scientific knowledge, among which the dialectical method occupies a leading place. The article uses general philosophical, general scientific and special legal research methods. It is concluded that the initiation of additional criminal procedural guarantees of the rights and legitimate interests of entrepreneurs, brought to criminal responsibility in cases of crimes in the field of entrepreneurial and other economic activities, will ensure their protection from illegal criminal prosecution.