Special Criminal Law Measures To Counter Organized Criminal Activity in The Economic Sphere

Introduction: the article analyzes the criminal law measures that can be applied in countering organized criminal activity in the economic sphere. Recent trends indicate that a significant number of economic crimes are committed in the form of organized groups. The study analyzes the possibility of introducing modern technologies in the detection and investigation of these groups of crimes, in particular, it suggests their use in determining confiscated property. Materials and Methods: the research materials were the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation regulating the procedure for the establishment of special measures of a criminal-legal nature, resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, materials of judicial practice. The methodological basis of the research is analysis, induction, deduction, generalization and formal legal methods of cognition. Results: in the course of the study, the author analyzes the procedure for the use of confiscation as a way to counter organized crime in the economic sphere, suggests measures to expand the possibilities of using special measures of a criminal-legal nature, the introduction of modern technologies in them. Discussion and Conclusions: the author comes to the conclusion that the existing problems of applying special measures of a criminal-legal nature have a negative impact on countering organized criminal activity in the economic sphere, including in the course of the study, ways to increase the effectiveness of these measures are proposed.