Administrative and legal responsibility of a private notary for corruption or corruption-related offenses

Abstract

The article examines the specifics of administrative and legal liability of notaries for corruption and corruption-related offenses. Anti-corruption is one of the important tasks of the state, therefore anti-corruption legislation is reformed quite often, as a result of which gaps and inconsistencies between individual legal acts may arise. A notary public is a person authorized by the state to perform notarial activities. Official duties and status of notaries contribute to increasing the trust of citizens, so private notaries can use their official powers for personal purposes, as a result of which damage may be caused to public values and the state.
 The administrative and legal responsibility of notaries for corruption offenses is aimed at preventing the commission of such offenses, educating the notary public and protecting the professional sphere of notaries. The administrative responsibility of a notary is a guarantee and a means of ensuring the rights and legal interests of citizens and legal entities when performing notarial and registration actions.
 Based on the analysis of normative legal acts, a discrepancy was found in the aspect of administrative and legal responsibility of notaries for corruption or corruption-related offenses. Thus, private notaries are among subjects who can commit corruption-related offenses, while the legislation on notaries today does not provide for bringing a notary to administrative responsibility.
 It was determined that, in this aspect, it is important to increase the effectiveness of anti-corruption in the field of activity of notaries and it is expedient to eliminate the shortcomings in the legislation and implement the electronic form of the state registration procedure. With the help of the implementation of the specified measures, it is possible to increase the effectiveness of the legislation on the administrative and legal responsibility of a private notary for corruption and corruption-related offenses. Further research is possible in the directions of improving the legislation on the administrative and legal responsibility of notaries for corruption and corruption-related crimes.