Criminalistic characteristics of the main methods of crimes committed by organized criminal groups using information and telecommunication technologies

The article presents a criminalistic description of the methods of crimes committed by organized criminal groups using information and telecommunication technologies. The research is based on a universal dialecticalmaterialistic method of understanding the patterns of the system of actions of participants in criminal groups when committing crimes using information and telecommunication technologies. The analysis of the methods of committing these crimes allows revealing their natural connections with other elements of forensic characteristics, in particular with the personality of the criminal, the personality of the victim, the mechanism of trace formation, etc. The position regarding the typical traces of this illegal activity is determined. Forensic knowledge about the structural elements of the methods of committing crimes by organized criminal groups using information and telecommunication technologies can be used in the investigation of crimes of the designated category in the process of building lines of investigation, as well as be taken into account for effective planning of a complex of operational search measures and investigative actions.