Role and place of the state bureau of investigation as a entity of preventing economic crime in the conditions of martial law in Ukraine

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the role and place of the State Bureau of Investigation as a subject of economic crime prevention under martial law in Ukraine. The article notes that under martial law in Ukraine, the issue of preventing criminal offenses in the economic sphere is an urgent one. The SBI plays an important role in this area.The military-political situation related to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and as a result, martial law introduced on February 24, 2022 by the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 64/2022, became a significant destabilizing factor in public life, which is especially noticeable against the background of the dramatic changes that have recently taken place in society. The analyzed statistical data showed that over the 3 years of the SBI's operation under martial law in Ukraine, the number of criminal proceedings in the economic sphere has increased almost 1.5 times. In this regard, it is impossible to solve the problem of the rapid increase in the number of economic criminal offenses under martial law in Ukraine without significant legislative changes. Our research has shown that for more than 5 years of the SBI's functioning, the legislator has not yet resolved the main issues that make it impossible to properly fulfill the tasks assigned to the SBI, the main ones being: creation of a modern regulatory framework for the prevention of economic criminal offenses and amendments to the system of regulatory legal acts of Ukraine; outlining the SBI's subject matter competence in the prevention of economic crime; determining the departmental affiliation (subordination) of the SBI in the national system of prevention of criminal offenses.