The basics of conducting revenue verification check

Corruption combating activities represent an important sector of local government’s work because it affects social stability. Its efficiency greatly depends on how seasoned the officers are: the better their knowledge and skills, the less procedural breaches. The article represents the author’s personal actual experience. It will be instrumental to the competence development of the staffers, responsible for one of the main types of anti-corruption monitoring – data verification of Moscow’s civil servants’ revenues. In most cases it is based on the civil servants revenues analysis results. In some instances the checks are initiated upon receipt of a plea from the Procurator’s Office. The check results are then reviewed by a special commission followed by the ruling of the executive body Head regarding the plight of the employee under review. In his responding to the Procurator’s plea the Head must follow stringent procedures including a formal report to the Procurator in the prescribed order. The article is aimed at indentifying the hidden pitfalls that are often run into in the course of revenue verification procedures, as well as at minimizing potential breaches of proceedings.