Financial and credit relations as an object of study in the detection and investigation of economic crimes

The article is devoted to the study of financial and credit relations in the process of detection andinvestigation of certain types of economic crimes. The authors analyze the state of forensic science on the issues of using special economic knowledge in the detection and investigation of crimes, expert researches of financial and credit relations, as well as the current classification of forensic economic examinations. The concepts of special economic knowledge and special knowledge about financial and credit relations are formulated; the characteristic features of criminal acts in the sphere of financial and credit relations are systematized; typical issues that require the solution in the study of financial and credit relations are presented; the importance of special knowledge about financial and credit relations for providing the establishment of crimes committed in the course of conducting financial and credit operations is argued. The authors present a good professional practice of the Forensic Center of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Belgorod Region for the purpose of economic assessments. The problematic issues arising in the investigation of crimes in the financial and credit sphere related to the assignment and conducting forensic examinations are highlighted. The normative- legal, administrative and methodical ways of their decisions are proposed.