The concept and types of crimes committed by contract executors in the field of state and municipal procurement

The subject of the study is criminal acts committed by contract executors in the field of public procurement. The danger of these crimes lies in causing damage to public interests related to the functioning of State bodies and embezzlement of budget funds. At the same time, the interest of bona fide contract executors also suffers due to the inability to make a profit from participating in the auction. In addition, criminal acts committed by contract executors in the field of public procurement are latent and widespread. However, to this day, the concept and types of these crimes have not received any official regulation and are poorly developed by science. The purpose of the study is to classify the crimes of contract executors in the field of state and municipal procurement in accordance with their common characteristics and formulate a universal definition for the latter. The methodological basis of the research was made up of general scientific and private scientific methods, in particular analysis, synthesis, logic, deduction, induction, as well as the method of legal statistics. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the author, during the analysis of judicial practice, identified the main criminal acts committed by contract executors in the field of state and municipal procurement. After that, by generalization and systematization, the author's classification of the criminal acts under consideration was created, which includes two types, one of which is divided into subspecies. In addition, the author established criteria for the relevance of criminal acts to the specified types and subspecies of the developed classification. And, finally, on the basis of the identified range of crimes committed by contract executors in the field of state and municipal procurement, a common concept for the latter was formulated.

state procurement, contract system, public procurement, fraud, bribe, corruption, restriction of competition, municipal procurement, criminal countermeasures, concept of crime