TYPICAL METHODS OF COMMITTING CORRUPTION CRIMES COMBINED WITH OBTAINING ILLEGAL BENEFIT

Abstract

The article emphasizes that corruption-related crimes involving illicit gain
are characterized by typical methods of preparation, direct commission,
concealment, and criminal technologies. The following typical methods of such
corruption-related crimes are identified and described: 1) preparation methods:
building connections (establishing and maintaining trust with officials who can
facilitate the implementation of a corruption scheme); document preparation
(falsification or creation of fake contracts, acts, or reports necessary to disguise
future criminal actions); identifying vulnerabilities in potential victims (analyzing
the financial or legal status of potential victims to later exploit these
circumstances in corruption schemes); scheme planning (developing an action
mechanism, including involving intermediaries, determining benefit transfer
channels or methods of legal disguise); 2) methods of direct commission: abuse of
official position (blocking legal processes, delaying permits, creating bureaucratic
obstacles, or providing unofficial preferences); psychological pressure
(manipulation, blackmail, hints of possible problems that force the victim to agree
to the perpetrator’s terms); masking as legal actions (using fictitious contracts,
"charitable contributions," fictitious employment, or false agreements); using intermediaries (involving third parties to complicate the identification of
perpetrators and the documentation of crimes); using the "corruption rent"
scheme (systematic receipt of benefits in the form of tariffs, percentages, or
monthly payments for obtaining services or avoiding obstacles); 3) methods of
concealment: falsification of accounting and reporting (making changes to
documents that hide the fact of illicit enrichment); destruction of evidence
(destruction of documents or material evidence that may indicate criminal
activity); transferring persons involved in the crime to other positions or
workplaces; staging legality (signing acts of acceptance-delivery for services or
completed works that were not actually provided); official forgery (creating
fictitious documents that conceal other crimes, e.g., abuse of power or bribery).