Participation of legal entities in criminal procedure as the victim

Purpose: Research and analysis of the participation of the legal entity as a victim in the criminal procedure. Identification of characteristics and patterns of participation of the legal entities. Detection of the existing problems and offer possible solutions. Methodology: Scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, and also comparative legal and formally legal methods were used. Results: Institute of the participation of legal entities in criminal proceedure, including as a victim, has a number of theoretical and practical issues. The author of this article, after analyzing the legislation of the Russian Federation, including the criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation and the civil code of the Russian Federation, containing a number of provisions regarding legal persons, as well as practice materials, identified a number of key issues arising from the participation of legal entities in criminal proceedings as a victim. Novelty/originality/value: The author of this article is one of the first to comprehensively consider the problems of participation of legal entities as victims in the criminal process, as in most scientific works and articles on this issue of participation of legal persons either not considered, or considered identical with individuals.