New criminal legislation on fraud in the context of its interpretation and application in practice
New criminal legislation is interpreted and applied by police officers ambiguously. Certain uniformity of the law enforcement practices is in the given overview of the Supreme Court on December 3, 2013. The greatest difficulty is caused by closecorpus delicti stiputated in Article 159 of the Criminal Code RF and special corpus delicti under Articles 159.1, 159.4 CC RF. The article comments on the basic contradictions revealed in the interpretation of these compositions by the end of 2013. The presence of the signed contract is a prerequisite for qualification of fraud under Article 159.4 of the Criminal Code RF, in its absence these are no grounds for bringing the fraudster to count under article 159.4 of the Criminal Code RF. The article attention to the gaps in the law of fraud. One of theme is the absence of such qualifying attribute, as the use by the fraudster his official position when committing fraud in business.