Detection and investigation of extortion in Russia in 2010 - 2020

Introduction: the article analyses statistics and surveys of citizens about the crime of extortion in Russia, its latency, growth, decrease in disclosure, and issues of investigation. Methods of extortion and connection with criminal groups are considered. Measures to combat extortion are proposed. Materials and Methods: general scientific (historical, comparative, system analysis) and private scientific methods of scientific knowledge (legal analysis, characteristics of normative legal acts, questionnaires and surveys of citizens, the study of statistics and criminal cases) were used. Results: the author discussed issues on scientific and practical approaches to detection and investigation of extortion; drew special attention to the issues of latency of extortion, decrease in disclosure of the crimes; highlighted the danger of extortion as the activity of criminal group. Discussion and Conclusions: the author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to use stricter criminal-legal approaches to consider the extortion and related organized crime, corruption and economic crimes, on the need to improve organizational and managerial level of investigation of this category of crime; the introduction of a strict liability of employees and heads of law enforcement agencies in identifying offences and the results of the investigation, the rise in the usage of technical means and tactical methods of investigation.