Basic criminalistics characteristics as a reflection of the mechanism of fraud committed by a group of persons and a guide in the practice of their investigation

Introduction: new methods of fraud committed by a group of persons, as one of the most common and natural phenomena of objective reality, with the growth and qualitative changes in such crimes acts as an urgent problem for criminalistic and law enforcement practice, requiring the knowledge and development of appropriate forensic tools, techniques and methods. The object of the article is the solution, investigation and prevention of fraud committed by group of persons. The subject is the laws of the mechanism of fraud committed by group of persons, and patterns of systematization of forensic science as part of the basic criminalistic characteristics as an effective reference point for solution, investigation and prevention of fraud committed by group of persons. Materials and Methods: the legal basis of the study was the Constitution of the Russian Federation, criminal law, criminal procedure law governing the solution, investigation and prevention of fraud committed by a group of persons, official statistics for the last five years, the results of the analysis of criminal cases of fraud committed by a group of persons...