Circumstances to be determined in cases of extortion

The process of investigating a crime requires the person conducting the investigation skills to properly focus their efforts to establish the circumstances to be proved. For each specific type of crime, this list is filled with specific content. In this regard, ensuring the completeness and comprehensiveness of the investigation of certain types of criminally punishable acts is possible by formulating a list of circumstances to be determined, which are understood to be more broadly the subject of evidence. The number of persons convicted annually of extortion is indicative of the prevalence of such crimes, and changes in the current legislation require specification with their consideration of the list of circumstances to be determined. In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the present work, on the basis of an analysis of the law enforcement practice and the legislation of the Russian Federation, the circumstances that are to be determined in the cases of the category in question according to the subject, the subjective side, the object and the objective side of the criminal offense under consideration are consistently formulated and outlined. Along with the above circumstances, which are subject to determination in cases of extortion, the issues related to the need to establish circumstances permitting delineation of the acts provided for аrt. 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation from related offenses, namely arbitrariness, robbery (art. 161 and art. 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).