Some Issues of Prosecutorial Supervision in the Field of Forest Legislation Enforcement

Abstract

Crimes in the field of forest legislation can be multidimensional in nature, including not only the fact of a criminal act (for example, illegal logging), but also the involvement of foreigners who have no right to be on the territory of the Russian Federation and carry out work here as low-paid laborer. In addition, the scale of criminal actions in the field of forest legislation, as a rule, is directly intertwined with the corruption component, when forestry workers contribute to the commission of a crime for paying for their services or non-interference in illegal activities. Since the aggrieved of this crime are usually not individuals, but the interests of society and state, the participation of the prosecutor in overseeing the implementation of forest legislation is of particular importance and is subject to comprehensive analysis and reflection. The normative basis of the study is the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, the Forest Code of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law “On the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation”, as well as various by-laws adopted on the basis of this Federal Law. The integrity and completeness of the work is ensured by the use of the dialectical method, system-structural analysis and methods of analysis and synthesis of information from various legal and information sources. The results of the study allow us to determine the role of prosecutorial supervision in the field of forest legislation enforcement.