Analysis of individual provisions of the draft Federal Law “On Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation”, developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (project ID 01/05/04-24/00147276)

The article is devoted to the analysis of individual provisions of the Draft Federal Law “On Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as the Draft), developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The article describes the problem of disclosing and investigating remote thefts of funds from citizens’ bank accounts.Next, the author analyzes the relevance of proposals made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to improve criminal procedural legislation in terms of supplementing the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation with a new investigative action “suspension of transactions with funds, electronic funds, advance payments”, as well as introducing changes to Part 5 of Article 165 of the Code in terms of the possibility of obtaining information about connections between subscribers and subscriber devices without issuing a preliminary court decision. Taking into account the analysis of existing law enforcement practice, the author proposes to supplement the Draft with a number of procedural actions, both at the stage of initiating a criminal case and at the stage of preliminary investigation.