Issues of periodization in the construction of the basic methodology for the disclosure and investigation of fraud committed by a group of persons

The article deals with controversial issues related to the problem of periodization of investigation of fraud committed by a group of persons, namely: the number and content of the stages of investigation; the beginning and end of the stages of investigation; the participants of the investigation; the focus of activities in the investigation of a crime; features of forensic activities at the initial and subsequent stages of investigation of fraud committed by a group of persons; on the basis of the obtained conclusions and the data of the conducted dissertation research, the concept of "the stage of investigation” in the basic methodology of disclosure and investigation of fraud committed by a group of persons is proposed.