The protection of information constituting commercial, tax and banking secrecy by means of criminal law

Introduction: one of the components of the national security of the Russian Fed­eration is information security. In turn, the information aspect inherent in other compo­nents of national security of Russia. In recent years the role and importance of infor­mation security in the sphere of economy has greatly increased. A part of the mecha­nism of its protection is the establishment of criminal responsibility for the attacks. Among the articles of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation, aimed at the achievement of this goal is article 183 of the Criminal code which provides for liability for violation of privacy of information constituting commercial, tax and banking secre­cy. Goal: to examine the provisions of article 183 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation, legislative structure of which does not stand up to criticism, primarily be­cause of its orientation on the protection of three objects. Methods: the methodological basis of research is the set of methods of scientific cognition. So, used scientific meth­ods (materialist dialectics), and astronaut methods (systematic structural, comparative legal and other). Results: it is proposed to exclude tax secrecy from the objects of legal protection. As for the legal protection of information constituting bank secrecy is neces­sary in the Criminal code should include the article 183.1. The provisions of the same Art. 183 of the criminal code should be aimed at ensuring the integrity of information constituting a commercial secret. Conclusions: the provisions of the criminal code of the Russian Federation, aimed at the criminal-legal protection of information constitut­ing commercial, tax and banking secrecy need to be improved.