Peculiarities of legislative regulation of liability for illegal turnover of precious metals and precious stones

Introduction: in the article, in conjunction with the norms of civil legislation, as well as with the norms of the Federal Law “On Precious Metals and Precious Stones”, the main provisions of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for liability for the illegal circulation of precious metals and natural gemstones or pearls are studied; the incompleteness of the subject of the crime and the need for amending the criminal law in terms of clarifying the specified subject is justified; the attention is focused on the mismatch of the norms of the criminal law and the Federal Law “On precious metals and precious stones”, which provoke questions in law enforcement practice. Materials and methods: the normative basis of the study was constituted by the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, criminal and civil legislation, federal laws and regulations governing the procedure for the circulation of precious metals and precious stones, revealing the content of the basic concepts...