Уголовно-правовая охрана обращения сведений публичных реестров в условиях цифровизации

Правовое государство: теория и практика. 2024. № 3. С. 131–139.

Grigorev P.

At the present stage of development of the state in the Russian Federation, there is a need for reliable protection of data contained in various public registers (e.g. the Unified State Register of Real Estate, the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and others) under criminal law. At the same time, the rapid digitalization of procedures of registering rights and mechanisms for committing relevant crimes has a significant impact on the application of criminal law in this area. This article discusses the most significant theoretical and practical issues caused by the digitalization of circulation of data contained in public registers: the issue of digitalization of elements of the corpus delicti of relevant crimes; the issue of the validity of new classification criteria for grouping digital crimes (both in studies and in legislation); various issues regarding law enforcement (e.g. blockchain technologies in running public registries, etc.).

Objective: to analyze current doctrinal and practical problems of protection of data contained in public registers under criminal law in the conditions of digital transformation of social relations protected by the norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Research Methodology: general scientific methods (analysis, description, comparison, etc.) and the formal legal method, which is a purely legal particular method.

Findings: the study confirmed the statement that the pervasive process of rapid digitalization of legislation regulating the procedure for keeping public registers, which ultimately allows us to talk about the digitalization of protection of this area by means of criminal law. The article formulates a number of conclusions on the issues raised, including the conclusion that at present there is no need for legislative separation within the framework of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of both crimes committed against the circulation of data of public registers, and the group of digital crimes in general.

Keywords: экономические преступления, информационное право, Единый государственный реестр юридических лиц (ЕГРЮЛ), information law, государственная регистрация, registers, цифровизация, economic crimes, state registration, digitalization, государственные реестры, Unified State Register of legal entities