Issues of criminal liability of legal entities in the criminal legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic

The growth of offenses committed by legal entities or in their interests currently indicates that a qualitatively new type of crime has been formed in many countries of the world - the crime of legal entities (“corporate crime” or “corporate crime”). In this regard, the experience of countries in combating the crime of legal entities, the established standards and criteria reflected in international normative legal acts, as well as the experience of introducing into the criminal legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic in 2017 (valid from January 1, 2019, to November 30, 2021) provisions on the legal norms regulating criminal activity deserve attention liability of legal entities. which were subsequently excluded by the new Criminal Code and the CPC, which entered into force on December 1, 2021. The analysis of the development and theoretical design of such an institution of criminal legislation of Kyrgyzstan as bringing legal entities to criminal responsibility is of great scientific interest. Therefore, the questions of what specific socially dangerous acts a legal entity can be prosecuted for, whether it is a subject of criminal liability, the grounds for criminal liability of legal entities and many others are very fundamental.