Features of the Prosecutor’s Participation in Countering Corruption and the Problem of Optimizing its Criminal Procedure: the Experience of the Post-Soviet States
Features of the Prosecutor’s Participation in Countering Corruption and the Problem of Optimizing its Criminal Procedure: the Experience of the Post-Soviet States

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the study is to assess the effectiveness of the establishment of specialized units in the system of prosecutors, which exclusively oversee the implementation of anti-corruption laws. Methods of research are represented by a wide range of scientific methods. The methodology is based on the dialectical method, which allows to evaluate the phenomena considered in the static and dynamic aspects. Analytical, system-structural, instrumental methods of cognition were used during the research. A comparative legal method was used to study the legislation of the post-Soviet states. The results of the study include an analysis of the current legislation, regulating the powers of the prosecutor in the process of combating corruption. Based on the experience of a number of foreign countries, the effectiveness of the activities of specialized anti-corruption prosecutors is assessed. Conclusions on the results of the study are formulated in several ways. First, the author’s assessment of the powers of the prosecutor, implemented in the fight against corruption, was given. Secondly, the experience of foreign countries, which have established specialized anti-corruption units in the system of prosecution authorities, is analyzed, and the prospect of its use in Russian legislation is justified. Thirdly, a forecast is given regarding the strengthening of the role of prosecutors in countering corruption.

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