Abstract
The article examines the criminal-legal problem of countering one of the most common types of crimes against property — fraud. The issues concerning the identification of the most complex legislative structures in order to improve and increase the effectiveness of the application in practice of the rule on a special type of fraud are considered. The issues of improving the criminal law norms on liability for fraud in order to increase their effectiveness in countering such crimes are investigated. It is noted that the problems of applying the new rules on fraud (Articles 159–159.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), which is a common crime against property, remain unresolved. The signs of a special composition of fraud are analyzed, various judgments on this issue expressed in the legal literature are given. Proposals are being made to optimize criminal legislation in this area.
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