Keyword: «official powers»

The article identifies some of the problems that law enforcement officers face when investigating and resolving criminal cases.The relevance of this topic is due to the fact that it is not always at the stage of preliminary investigation and consideration by the court of first instance of criminal cases related to abuse of official powers and excess of official powers specified in Art. 285 and art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, respectively, as well as in the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated October 16, 2009 N. 19 “On judicial practice in cases of abuse of official powers and exceeding official powers”, it is possible to clearly and fully qualify the illegal acts in question.At the same time, the relevance is confirmed by the legal statistics available on official portals and scientific publications. The purpose of the article is to consider and legal assessment of some criminal legal issues of qualification of the types of crimes mentioned above. In the process of compiling this article, the following scientific methods were used: analysis, synthesis, observation, comparison, analogy, statistical. The author of the article examined some issues of qualifying abuse of official powers and exceeding official powers, comparing these types of crimes with some other related types of crimes, identifying both common features and criteria for differences. The author also considered the issue of prevention and prevention of these crimes, proposals for amending the regulations mentioned earlier.Based on the results of the study, significant differences were identified between related crimes to differentiate them, and a method for the prevention and prevention of corruption-related crimes was proposed.