Novelties of Criminal Procedure Legislation on Investigative Actions

Abstract

The article discusses changes and supplements to the criminal procedure legislation, providing for new opportunities in the production of individual investigative actions, as well as new types of investigative actions. Attention is paid to the problem of the lack of a legislative definition of investigative actions, which would contain an indication of the main features characteristic of all investigative actions. In view of the importance of timely, effective investigative actions for the collection and verification of evidence, the article analyzes the new opportunities that the legislator has provided in the work of the investigator (inquirer) for certain types of investigative actions. In addition, the analysis is given which concerns legislative changes that have expanded the traditional list of types of investigative actions, supplementing it with such varieties as the seizure of property of individuals and legal entities, the sale and destruction of physical evidence. Such a supplement to the list of types in the system of investigative actions practically erases the differences between the procedural actions of the investigator and the actual investigative actions.