Legal regulation of the prosecutor’s office activities in combating corruption

Abstract

The study focuses on legal norms regulating prosecutorial activities in combatting corruption and the public relations arising from these activities. The purpose of the study is to make a comprehensive analysis of the above-mentioned legal norms and legal relations, defining the concept of the prosecutor’s office’s activity to combat corruption in order to clarify its boundaries and the areas included. Legal acts, statistical data, and scientists’ perspectives on this issue are the subjects of the study.

The author noted the uncertainty of views in science on what the prosecutor’s office’s activity to combat corruption includes. There is also a lack of a definition of this activity, as well as a structured list of powers of the prosecutor’s office to combat corruption, which does not allow for determining the boundaries of this activity.

Based on the results of the study, the author formulates a definition of the prosecutor’s office’s activity to combat corruption and proposes to include it in the Law on the Prosecutor’s Office. This is a significant contribution of the author to the topic study, since such a definition is absent in scientific works and current legislation. The author also proposes to establish in the Law on the Prosecutor’s Office a certain list of powers granted to the Prosecutor’s Office to combat corruption and identifies a number of problems in the legal regulation of the Prosecutor’s Office’s activities to combat corruption that require further study.