SOME CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES OF THE OBJECTIVE SIDE AND THE SUBJECT OF COMPULSION TO GIVE EVIDENCE

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The article is devoted to certain controversial issues of the objective side and the subject of the corpus delicti provided for in Part 1 of Article 302 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The article also examines certain problematic issues related to the amendments introduced by Federal Law No. 307-FZ of July 14, 2022 "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation" in Part 1 of Article 302 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as analyzes the provisions of Resolution No. 20 of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated June 28, 2022 "On Certain Judicial Issues Practice in criminal cases of crimes against justice". Separately, the article focuses on the possible qualification of the actions of an investigator (inquirer, other law enforcement officer) who gave "tacit consent" to compulsion to give evidence or coercion of an expert to make a report.

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E. A Melnikov

Lomonosov Moscow State University

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Email: evgmelnikov.1985@mail.ru
PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Economic and Financial Investigations of the Higher School of Public Audit Moscow, Russia

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