Property-related economic crime and processing effects

The author analyzes the procedural problems of investigation of criminal cases in the sphere of economic and business activities. Argues that the main tools of compensation to the state, citizens and organizations of damage caused by the crime - a civil action and seizure of property - in today’s economic crime are inefficient, they need to be modernized. Proposes to introduce in the criminal proceedings as civil defendants such participants as «beneficiary» and «beneficial owner» to change the theoretical basis for seizure of property.