Victim, injured party in crimes in the field of procurement for state and municipal needs

The current legal reality of the Russian Federation has the following problems: a) difficulties in judicial practice that arise when resolving criminal cases related to procurement crimes for state and municipal needs, b) a high percentage of latent procurement crimes, c) a complex object of this categories of crimes, d) the lack of relevant provisions of the law on the subject and the injured party for the crimes of the designated group. Today, an individual or legal entity can be recognized as the injured party in the Russian criminal process. The status of public law entities and bodies established by them is not regulated by the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation. The object of this research is the public relations that suffer when committing crimes in the field of procurement for state and municipal needs. The purpose of this work is an attempt to prove the necessity of recognizing at the legislative level as the injured party in a criminal case the bodies of state power of the Russian Federation, bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, municipal bodies - in the event that an offense against the government, the interests of the state or municipal service, management procedures, including those committed in the field of procurement for state and municipal needs. The results of our work are the presentation of arguments confirming the need to recognize, in certain cases, the bodies of state power and local self-government of the status of the victim in criminal cases.