COVERT INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE OF THE KAZAKHSTAN REPUBLIC: AN ELEMENT OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS OR OPERATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES?
It is analyzed the Criminal Procedure Code dated in 2015.Its main purpose was the possibility of the integrating operational investigative activities into the criminal procedure legislation of the Kazakhstan Republic. Some problematic aspects of the existing procedural order of this institution in the pre-trial criminal proceedings of the Kazakhstan Republic, as well as controversial issues of the similar existing model in the criminal procedure legislation of the Russian Federation are identified.