Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs: Transformation of Criminal Law to Implement the Potential of Russian Business

The potential of the business community directly affects the economic development and economic security of society. This question is especially relevant in connection with the global challenges that have arisen before the society. Implementation of business opportunities is significantly limited by illegal acts against business entities, the extent of which the statistical data indirectly helps to asses. In our legal system, the rights of entrepreneurs are comprehensively protected by legislation, which is confirmed by a large number of safeguards provided during the investigation of criminal cases and discussed in the article, as well as institutions and tools for protecting the rights of business entities. However, the business community still needs protection both from false entrepreneurs and from illegal actions of the personnel of the preliminary investigation bodies. Domestic legal science faces not only the issue of large-scale transformation of criminal law in order to realize the potential of Russian business — a qualitative change in criminal law will not be able to correct all existing problems of law enforcement in the absence of a detailed legal study of the prerequisites for the formation of entrepreneurship in Russia and the formation of law enforcement practices that it seems necessary to eradicate.
The responsible role of business representatives is expressed in high-tech and generating economic benefits of entrepreneurial activity. At the same time, the rights of entrepreneurs need to be protected also from illegal actions of the officers of the preliminary investigation bodies. The problem under consideration and other problems identified in the work, along with statistical data, allow us to conclude that it is important to organize protection of the rights of business entities during the investigation of crimes to ensure the economic security of the state, a stable economy and business environment.

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