Criminal legal support of operational experiment

The article attempts to analyze the degree of criminal-legal regulation of relationships arising in connection with the operational experiment as one of the most complex types of operational search measures characterized by external similarity with criminal behavior. The article clarifies the notion of operational experiment and its substantive features, and then assesses the degree of criminal-legal regulation that determines the legality of its conduct, and formulates proposals to improve article 304 of the Criminal Code, currently presupposing liability for provocation of bribes, commercial bribery or bribery in the procurement of goods, works and services for state or municipal needs. A substantive analysis of the legitimate operational experiment is stipulated to the necessity of its separation from related wrongful acts (provocation and staging of the crime, of falsification of results of operational search activity). Aspects of criminal-legal regulation of operational experiment are carried out on the basis of the analysis of criminal-legal norms providing legality of harm (Chapter 8 of the Criminal Code), Art...