THE CONCEPT OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE IN THE COMPOSITION OF CRIMES IN THE SPHERE OF ECONOMIC ACTIVIT

УДК 343.791 ББК 67.408

Abstract

The norms of Chapter 22 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are in the overwhelmingmajority of a blanket nature. Blanketness implies the need to appeal to other, in addition to criminal,branches of law to establish the content of a criminal law prohibition. However, the criminal law containsdefinitions that are not defined not only in the normative acts of various branches of law, but also in thelegal doctrine. Of course, such a situation significantly complicates the process of understanding the true content of the criminal law norm, as a result, can lead to significant errors in law enforcement. One ofthese definitions is “accounts payable”. The term itself is directly mentioned in the disposition of one normof the criminal law — Art. 177 (malicious evasion from paying off accounts payable). However, the term“accounts payable” must be established when qualifying a number of other acts, for example, such as unlawfulactions in bankruptcy, deliberate bankruptcy, fraud associated with deliberate failure to fulfill contractualobligations (parts 4 and 5 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In this article,the author, on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the economic content, civil law regulation and thespecifics of criminal law application, proposes his own approach to establishing the content of the conceptof “accounts payable”, which can be useful both in developing a model of effective criminal law protectionof economic activity, and and in the process of law enforcement.