Seizure and inspection of mobile phone as electronic information medium

Introduction: Telecommunications is now an integral part of any person’s life and is able to store and transmit all kinds of information. The device itself can become a source of traces of crime, clarification of other circumstances relevant to the criminal case. Materials and methods: the normative basis of the study is formed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, criminal procedure legislation, local normative acts. The methodological basis of the study was the general dialectical method of scientific knowledge, which allowed fully and comprehensive considering of the peculiarities to carry out investigative actions, during which it is possible to remove telecommunication technical means, as well as in what cases it is possible to examine them, the need to obtain a court decision for this purpose. Methods of logical derivation, induction, cognitive methods and techniques of observation, comparison, analysis, generalization and description were also used. Results of the study: the article analyses the forensic and procedural aspects of mobile phone inspection...