Legal aspects of business security and their current state in the Russian Federation

Purpose: To Identify the main problems in relation to the legal provision of criminal law protection and protection of business security in the Russian Federation. Methodology: The article uses legal and formal legal methods. Results: The article analyzes the data available on the results of the survey conducted by the authors, as well as the data available in the public domain. According to the data obtained, based on a survey of businessmen and operatives of the Ural Federal district, the latent part of the claims against business security is 20-25 times higher than the registered part. In other words, less than 5% of crimes actually committed in this area are registered. In addition, experts (experts from the number of scientists, practitioners and entrepreneurs) confirmed the proximity of these assessments to the real situation. Novelty/originality/value: The Article has a high scientific value, as it has a number of conclusions about the current state of the issue considered in the article. In particular, the authors formulated a number of questions about the current situation in the field of business security: currently, there is, in particular, a lack of coordination of the criminal practice in cases of corruption crimes and trends in these crimes; it is necessary to create a single database for the reference service of operational-search and investigative and judicial bodies.