Tasks of the initial stage of investigation of economic crimes committed on railway transport and algorithms of actions to solve them

Introduction: The need to develop and consistently improve the theoretical foundations of the investigation of economic crimes committed in railway transport is justified in a number of scientific publications (A. E. Antonov, O. P. Gribunov, E. A. Malykhina, A. L. Permyakov, V. I. Shchukin, etc.). however, the pace of meeting the needs of investigative practice in forensic recommendations of the appropriate orientation is still characterized as extremely slow. the situation is aggravated by the fact that no more than a third of the total number of such crimes is detected annually. The perpetrators, widely use their professional knowledge, official position, modern information technologies, and their investigation is unthinkable without taking into account the many factors inherent in the rail transport industry, the number of which should highlight the situation of committing economic crimes, the diversity of their mechanisms, the character and location leaving traces on the specifics of the search cognitive activity of law enforcement officers. this article attempts to address specific problems inherent in the initial stage of the investigation of crimes of this type, where a lot is solved from the point of view of the judicial perspective of the initiated criminal cases. Materials and Methods: the theoretical basis of the work is formed by the results of the works of domestic scientists. The actual side of the work was made up of regulatory and legal sources of the Russian Federation, suspended and completed criminal cases, court sentences (decisions), the results of a questionnaire survey of practitioners, as well as the authors ' own observations. The research methodology is based on the use of methods of materialistic dialectics. During the research, the results of which are summarized in this article, a set of general scientific, special and private methods of studying the processes and phenomena determined by the commission of crimes in the field of railway transport economy was used. Results of the Study: the article presents the main tasks of the initial stage of investigation of crimes in the sphere of economy committed on railway transport, offers algorithms of actions for their resolution in the conditions of typical investigative situations. Findings and conclusions: the conducted research made it possible to develop practice-oriented recommendations for employees of the internal Affairs bodies engaged in the identification, disclosure and investigation of economic crimes committed on railway transport.