The Statute of Limitations as the Unfulfilled Hope of Corrupt Officials

The article shows the relationship between the genesis of statehood and the activities of its anti-corruption institutions. The article reveals the conditionality between the success of statehood formation and the understanding of the peoples forming it that the fight against abuse of power should form an integrated approach that includes a civil law direction. The study of the latter revealed the frequent use of statute of limitations by corrupt officials to protect their illegal property status, as well as the diversity of judicial interpretation of this institution regarding its applicability to anti-corruption lawsuits by prosecutors. The consequences of the introduction into practice of the limitation of law enforcement work to eliminate corruption by statute of limitations are analyzed, its importance in the general legal context and public worldview is highlighted. Paradoxes and absurdities are revealed as a natural result of the formulaic application of the statute of limitations to corrupt legal relations, where the named institution becomes a way to protect the illegal enrichment of officials, as well as a mechanism for equalizing their rights with bona fide participants in civil turnover. The analysis uses the experience of the participation of prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office in court proceedings in this category of cases.