Issues of optimization of criminal law regulation of responsibility for involvement in the theft of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances

Issues of criminal responsibility for involvement in the crime provided for by Article 229 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are considered in the article. As a result of the research it was determined that persons are prosecuted for involvement in the theft of narcotic drugs in connection with not promised in advance concealment of the theft, committed by an organized group, on a large scale, with the use of violence, dangerous for life and health or with the threat of such a violence and for committing a grand theft. In the list of crimes providing for criminal responsibility in case of not reporting (Art. 205.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), corpus delicti provided for by Art. 229 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, is not mentioned. This fact indicates the infringement on the mechanism of criminal law protection of public health from the non-medical use of drugs.