CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL ENTITIES UNDER THE LEGISLATION OF KYRGYZSTAN
The article is devoted to the issues of criminal liability of legal entities in the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan), established by the new Criminal Code of 2017, which entered into force on January 1, 2019. Criminal liability of legal entities is provided for by this code in its broad sense as an application of compulsory measures of criminal law to legal entities in criminal procedural order, which include a fine, restriction of the rights of a legal entity, liquidation of a legal entity, confiscation of property of a legal entity. The author considers the grounds for the application of coercive measures of criminal law to legal entities and an act (crime), in the event of which a legal entity can be subjected to coercive measures of criminal law. It is noted that the specified measures can be applied to a legal entity in the event that the relevant act is committed on behalf of or through a legal entity by an individual in the interests of this legal entity, regardless of whether such an individual is prosecuted or not. The article considers the criminal procedure for the application of compulsory measures of criminal law to legal entities and the issues of execution of court decisions on the application of compulsory measures of criminal law to legal entities. It is concluded that the institution of criminal liability of legal entities formed in Kyrgyzstan includes the norms of criminal, criminal procedural and criminal executive legislation. The prospects of the institution of criminal liability of legal entities in Kyrgyzstan are considered.