Separate issues of forensic support for pretrial investigation of crimes committed in the field of defense procurement

The article reveals the essence of forensic analysis of crimes in the field of defense procurement and the possibility of forensic support for their pre-trial investigation. The relevance of this problem is dictated by the fact that crimes in the field of defense procurement are an extremely dangerous destabilizing factor that negatively affects the combat capability of the Armed Forces and the defense capability of our state in the conditions of a full-scale war with an aggressor country. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between the elements of the forensic analysis of such criminally punishable acts and the criminal law. It is proved that this is quite natural as a result of the exclusive role of the criminal law in the construction of criminal offences. It is proved that this is quite natural as a result of the exclusive role of the criminal law in the construction of criminal offences. It is noted that the importance of defense procurement for the national security of the state leads to high requirements for the effectiveness of the investigation of crimes. In the system of countermeasures against such criminal manifestations, an important role is assigned to the legal and forensic support of law enforcement activities in this area. In the criminalistics sense, the object of a crime in the field of defence procurement is a part of the material world to which a criminal act is directed, i.e. to take possession of what the criminal’s intention is aimed at or what harm is caused. It was determined that for the study of the subject of the criminalistics structure of this type of crime, his official functions are important. Possession of these or other official functions has a significant impact on the subject’s ability to influence the object of criminal encroachment, access to the means of committing a crime and the criminal’s choice of a set of these means, in other words, largely determines the mechanism of committing a crime. In order to form a forensic structure of crimes in the field of defence procurement, its elements and their interrelationships are defined. The content of such structural elements is given, which includes: the method of committing and concealing such crimes, the circumstances of the crime (place, time); typical traces of a crime, etc. The article concludes that the quality of the pre-trial investigation of the specified types of crimes is directly dependent on the level of forensic support, including the availability of scientifically based recommendations for their detection and investigation, as well as on the appropriate forensic support.