THEFT OF NON-CASH AND ELECTRONIC MONEY: ON CURRENT LAW ENFORCEMENT ISSUES

Abstract

The subject of the article is the issues of legislative regulation and practical implementation
of a rule on criminal liability for theft from a bank account, as well as of electronic money. The aim of the
study is to analyze the peculiarities of legislative regulation and modern law enforcement issues raised due to
the criminal prosecution for theft from a bank account, as well as of electronic money.
The objectives of the study are the following: to analyze the specifics of legislative regulation of criminal
prosecution for theft from a bank account, as well as of electronic money, to determine the main theoretical and
law enforcement issues in the field, to propose an author’s approach to eliminate the detected defects.
The methodological basis of the study includes a complex of general scientific methods, with dialectical
method being used the most, as well as specific scientific methods, such as formal and logical method,
comparative and legal method and others.
As a result of the study, prospects are considered to eliminate the issues and defects that are unique
for the current state of criminal liability for theft from a bank account, as well as of electronic money. Detected
in the course of the study, theoretical and law enforcement issues are to be eliminated by the author’s
approaches. The scientific novelty of the study is to develop the ways to increase crime detection rate enshrined
by the Article 158 Part 3 Issue “g” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; to specify certain
rules of classification of theft from a bank account, as well as of electronic money, performed with modern
technologies; to determine the procedure of delimitation of activity enshrined by the Article 158 Part 3 Issue
“g” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation from the action listed in the Article 159.3 of the Criminal
Code of the Russian Federation.