Abstract
The analysis of the grounds for the confiscation of property allowed the author to identify a set of problems that have arisen as a result of the legislative separation of petty commercial bribery and petty bribery. Article 1041 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation gives no legal basis for seizure of property obtained as a result of petty commercial bribery or petty bribery. It leads to the deficiency of the means of criminal law enforcement and requires the use of other means, not restricted to only penal tools. For the confiscation of property, courts resort to the application of civil law norms regulating the invalidity of civil transactions. The author notes that as a result of this approach to the legal regulation of the confiscation of property and decisions taken by the courts, there is a confusion and substitution of the legal nature of the fact of a crime and the fact of a civil tort. In order to eliminate the revealed contradictions, the author proposes to amend the normative regulation of the grounds for the confiscation of property and to consider property received as a result of petty commercial bribery or petty bribery as obtained illegally and, accordingly, subject to seizure as state revenue.
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