Використання спеціальних знань під час розслідування зловживання владою або службовим становищем

The article examines the role of specialised knowledge in the investigation of criminal offences involving abuse of power or position. The author analyses the need to engage experts from various fields of knowledge, including economics, law, forensics, digital technologies and social psychology, to identify and prove such offences. It is noted that despite the increase in the number of investigations into abuse of power or office, the effectiveness of their completion and bringing the perpetrators to justice remains low. This points to the need to improve the mechanisms for investigating and prosecuting such cases to ensure the inevitability of punishment and to strengthen public confidence in the law enforcement system. The main types of expertise used include handwriting examination, which helps to determine the author of a handwritten text, signature or establishes the fact of forgery, technical examination of documents, which helps to analyse changes in documents, traces of forgery, additions, erasures, use of non-authentic printing media, economic examination - checks financial and economic transactions, the presence of losses, compliance of accounting documents with real processes and computer and technical expertise, which is used in cases. The author identifies the main problems and prospects for improving the use of specialised knowledge in criminal investigations. Today, the problematic aspects of the use of specialised knowledge in the investigation of abuse of power or official position are: lack of proper coordination between investigative and expert institutions, insufficient number of qualified specialists in the field of economic analysis and digital forensics, and gaps in the legislative regulation of the use of expert opinions. The author establishes that potential solutions to this problem include the expansion of international cooperation in the field of combating corruption-related criminal offences, the use of the latest technologies, in particular artificial intelligence, for analysing large amounts of financial data, and advanced training of investigators and prosecutors in the field of specialised knowledge.