On Particulars of the Mechanism to Identify Public Funds Embezzlement in Housing Development

Abstract

The main focus of this article is on one of the most frequent crimes in housing development, each year taking more sophisticated ways of committing and concealing it. That is public funds embezzlement. This sphere of the state economic activity is very attractive for criminals. Huge sums are wasted on it out of federal and regional budgets. Despite repeated addresses of the Head of the state, detection and spreading of facts of billion public funds embezzlement in this sphere through media, criminals do not "slow down", but to the contrary, attract high-ranking officials to commit these crimes, connecting corruption and economic crimes. Their investigation therefore is even more difficult. This article contains evidences of criminal cases investigated by the authorized bureau of the Russian Federation, based on which survey the author uncovers peculiarities of the mechanism to identify ways of committing this category of crimes.