Methods of market manipulation: issues of criminal law regulation

The article considers the methods of market manipulation as a criminal offence according to the legislation of the Russian Federation. Among them, such methods as dissemination of deliberately false information, financial transactions under a preliminary agreement between market participants, conclusion of transactions, obligations under which are fulfilled at the expense or in the interests of one person, repeated transactions at organized auctions in order to mislead financial market participants about the price of the object of exchange trading, nonfulfillment of obligations on trading operations without the intention of their subsequent execution, etc. Moreover, the author presents examples of unfair practices that take place in stock trading, but do not fall under the criminal law prohibitions. The study concludes that there is a need to improve the national criminal legislation in the field of organized bidding.